# The Travelers

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- Book: [The Travelers](https://www.bookquiver.com/regina-porter/the-travelers) ([The Travelers.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/regina-porter/the-travelers.md))
- Authors: [Regina Porter](https://www.bookquiver.com/regina-porter)
- Publisher: vintage_digital
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-7355-914-1
- Published: 2019-07-04
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

When the boy was four, he asked his father why people needed sleep. His father said, ‘So God could unfuck all the things people fuck up.’ *LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION 2020* As America recovers from the Second World War, two families’ journeys begin. James Vincent, born in 1942 to an Irish-American family, escapes his parents’ turbulent marriage and attends law school in New York, where he moves up the social ladder as a prosperous and bright attorney. Meanwhile, Agnes Miller, a beautiful black woman on date with a handsome suitor, is pulled over by the police on a rural road in Georgia. The terrible moments that follow make her question her future and pivot her into a hasty marriage and new life in the Bronx. Illuminating more than six decades of sweeping change – from the struggle for civil rights and the chaos of Vietnam to Obama’s first year as President – James and Agnes’s families will come together in unexpected, intimate and profoundly human ways. 'Regina Porter’s sprawling, sparkling debut novel… is an exhilarating ride. Porter is a wickedly astute chronicler of human foibles. In her hands, this series of glimpses feels something like life itself.' Guardian