Schroder: A Novel

As an adolescent, Erik Schroder - a first-generation East German immigrant - adopts a new name and a new persona in the hope that it will help him fit in. This fateful white lie will set him on an improbably and ultimately tragic course. Years later, amid a heated custody battle with his estranged wife, Erik kidnaps his six-year-old daughter, Meadow... From the confines of a correctional facility, Erik relates the story of their seven days on the road as he tries to outrun the authorities, and surveys the course of his life in an attempt to understand and explain his behaviour...