Fifty-year-old Bostonian John G.F. O'Rourke wakes up one morning suddenly dissatisfied with the normalcy of his life. A man grounded in corporate America, he resigns his big career, sells his waterfront condominium, and puts his possessions in storage. In his blood red BMW 525i, with the clothes on his back and a wallet full of gold cards, he sets off on a journey to discover his mother's Southern roots and Cherokee heritage, and his own meaning and purpose and place in the world. What he finds is his granddaddy, a crass, semi-literate, 111-year-old magic man of huge eccentricity and few...