“Pocock's writing is intellectually and emotionally thrilling. In Greyhound she brings us on a road trip through America's alienated hinterlands—anonymous motels, all-night diners, blighted backstreets—as she builds a kind of philosophy of transience. I'd follow her anywhere.” —Cal Flyn, author of Islands of Abandonment

“In Greyhound, Pocock takes us on an epic road trip through American landscapes, through urban dreams and nightmares. Along the way, she asks: how can our material comfort coexist with the impoverishment of nature? How much degradation do we have to witness before we change our way of living? With an exquisite and beautifully reflective prose, Pocock explores a heart of darkness, and expresses a deep desire and need to connect with the earth. It is a wonderful and vivid text from one of our most important ecofeminist writers.” —Xiaolu Guo, author of Call Me Ishmaelle

"Pocock reveals a complicated American landscape from the shabby seats of Greyhound buses and through a pinhole of grief as she retraces her past and a country’s past and finds suffering and redemption in both. She is at the mercy of the communities and the country she encounters, which, like the nation itself, is also in gripped in its own reckoning. Like Denis Johnson’s Angels and Jonathan Raban’s Bad Land, Greyhound finds truth and decency in the unglamourous and shows how the United States has perhaps always been on unstable soil." —Kerri Arsenault, author of Mill Town  

“Erudite, empathic and intensely engaging, Joanna Pocock rides the bus through our broken America with the eyes of a time traveler, on highways that are also paths through memory, skillfully intertwining narratives of her own journeys through different stages of life and others who have traced similar routes. Greyhound bears witness to how the damage we feel in our own lives and communities is rooted in our damaged relationship with the land on which we live, and in doing so provides a powerful prism through which to think about where we have been, where we are going, and other roads we could take.” —Christopher Brown, Philip K. Dick Award-nominated author of A Natural History of Empty Lots and Tropic of Kansas

"Greyhound is an instant classic, a chronicle of desperation, anger, and violence, as well as the luminous beauty and humanity that four decades of neoliberal looting have been unable to kill off from the American countryside. Pocock's eye is sharp and her prose crackles with wistfulness, fleeting camaraderie, and vitality. Not since William Least Heat-Moon's Blue Highways has a book so captured the feeling of the road." —Daegan Miller, author of This Radical Land

“Joanna Pocock’s Greyhound is an intimate epic, and a fierce mirror held to our U.S. ecological and sociological present such as only a visitor, seemingly, can provide. The thinking is scrupulous, the writing scraped and glinting and as stark as the landscape. This book kept me up all night and will stay with me.” —Jonathan Lethem