Curve of the World Marcus, Stevens

Lewis Burke is a travel writer who lives between flights, between cities, between versions of himself. His marriage has collapsed. His son barely speaks to him. Then word arrives that his estranged teenage boy has vanished into the jungles of Central America, chasing rumors of a lost Mayan city. Lewis follows, moving through borders and languages, piecing together fragments of his son's trail while grappling with his own failures as a father and husband. Stevens writes like someone who understands that geography can't save you from yourself, but sometimes the right journey forces you to look at what you've been running from. This is a novel about distance — the kind measured in miles and the kind that opens up between people who share blood. For readers who like Denis Johnson's melancholy, restless men or anyone who's ever used a plane ticket as an escape hatch.