Back Roads (novel)

Back Roads is the 1999 novel by the American writer Tawni O'Dell, and was chosen as an Oprah's Book Club selection in March 2000.

Back Roads
AuthorTawni O'Dell
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
GenreNovel
PublisherViking Press/Allen Lane
Publication date
December 1999
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)
Pages338 pp (hardback edition)
ISBN0-670-88760-9 (hardback edition) & ISBN 0-451-20234-1 (paperback edition)
OCLC40891038
813/.54 21
LC ClassPS3565.D428 B33 2000
Preceded byNone, Back Roads was Tawni's first published novel. 
Followed byCoal Run (June 2004), Sister Mine (March 2007) 

Describing her novel and characters during an interview in 2000, O'Dell said:

"I didn't see it as a novel of redemption.... To me, Harley was the hero of this book. He was doing the best he could with what he had.... There'd definitely not be that riding off into the sunset kind of hope."

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