The Improbable Road of Return
By Nath Jones
Publication date: December 17th 2025
Genres: Adult, Romance, Women’s Fiction
What is coming home now? THE IMPROBABLE ROAD OF RETURN is a reentry story about six weeks in the life of a woman named Jenks. In 2012 she accidentally kills a man on a run and does two years in prison for it. After she gets out in 2015 everything is different and her relationships with the two men in her life must change. Does one even know the full truth? How can Jenks be honest? Her mother has to accept her as a murderer, but how can they both acclimate? What will ever be the same? She shoved the man off the bike with the same force she shoves a grocery cart into a parking lot corral. And that makes her among the worst on earth? Well it did kill the man and she did do time. So she must make a way back to who she is. Isandro is her twenty-eight year old lover and Sauveterre is her seventy-four year old neighbor. She isn’t in love with either of them, is she? Or are the relationships of the twenty-first century just that impossible to understand?
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About Author Nath Jones:
Best New American Voices nominee Nath Jones received an MFA in creative writing from Northwestern University. A title in the On Impulse series went to number one on Kindle. Her publishing credits include PANK Magazine, There Are No Rules, and Sailing World, and she has won multiple awards. She lives and writes in Chicago.
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I would think that some of the ‘return’ aspects would be influenced by WHY she pushed the man off his bike.
This is an interesting plot for a book, one that I don’t recall encountering before (at least among my reading). I wonder what inspired the author’s idea for writing the novel. On Instagram, the author mentions that this is her first book, so should take a peek at her body of work when time permits. Anyway, thanks for sharing! 🙂
This looks like a great book!
Captivating cover
I like everything about this book – genre title and cover!
Thank you for the excerpt.
I like the cover art and the book’s description is intriguing.