In Farewell Transmission, WillMcGrath guides us on a rambling quest into the enlightenment of other lives.Funny and heartbreaking, intimate and galvanizing, these essays venture fromYemen to Lesotho to the Bronx and beyond. This is a book of hiddenness: ofsecret lives and ghost stories and obscure passions. Whether he's unravelingthe fraught history of a noose in Namibia or wandering the Driftless Area witha modern-day goatherd, McGrath is on an excavation into landscapes rarely seen.Like Leslie Jamison's The Empathy Exams and John Jeremiah Sullivan's Pulphead, these essays pulse with electric prose and vivid characters, seeking out theinvisible forces that bind us across our wondrous and troubling planet.