You Shall Know Our Velocity

"Headlong, heartsick and footsore....Frisbee sentences that sail, spin, hover, circle and come back to the reader like gifts of gravity and grace....Nobody writes better than Dave Eggers about young men who aspire to be, at the same time, authentic and sincere." -- The New York Times Book Review
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"Headlong, heartsick and footsore....Frisbee sentences that sail, spin, hover, circle and come back to the reader like gifts of gravity and grace....Nobody writes better than Dave Eggers about young men who aspire to be, at the same time, authentic and sincere." -- The New York Times Book Review

Now in Trade Paperback, Dave Eggers, author of the quintessential "Generation X" memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, delivers a humorous and moving debut novel. Two rather earnest but naïve young men from Wisconsin named Will and Hand find themselves in the curious predicament of sitting on a fortune to which they do not feel entitled. The pair sets out on a philanthropic journey around the world, bestowing funds on individuals deemed to be worthy. Will and Hand, neither of whom possesses a sophisticated geopolitical perspective, discover that traveling from country to country and continent to continent involves a nightmare of bureaucratic red tape and complicated transportation logistics. As a well-intentioned but poorly executed itinerary goes awry, Eggers provides a perceptive take on our collective notions of charity and human kindness.