From theNew York Timesbestselling author ofRoomcomes a moving set of historical stories spanning centuries and continents.

The fascinating characters that roam across the pages of Emma Donoghues stories have all gone astray: they are emigrants, runaways, drifters, lovers old and new. They are gold miners and counterfeiters, attorneys and slaves. They cross other borders too: those of race, law, sex, and sanity.

They travel for love or money, incognito or under duress.

With rich historical detail, the celebrated author ofRoomtakes us from puritan Massachusetts to revolutionary New Jersey, antebellum Louisiana to the Toronto highway, lighting up four centuries of wanderings that have profound echoes in the present.Astrayoffers us a surprising and moving history for restless times.