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A Reclusive Journalist Is Drawn Back Into His Family’s Life
Rhys Kinnick is a former environmental reporter who lost his job and withdrew from the world.
After seven years living alone on his family’s farm outside Spokane, he barely recognizes his grandchildren, Leah and Asher, when they arrive at his cabin.
Their mother, Bethany, has disappeared, and their father, Shane, is with a religious group called the Church of the Blessed Fire.
Rhys agrees to help the children, including taking Asher to a chess tournament he hopes to enter.
At the church, they instead encounter armed members of the Army of our Lord, who injure Rhys and take the children to their compound.
Rhys sets out to rescue Leah, Asher and Bethany.
In the end, the family members help save one another.
The story follows Rhys’s return to family life amid conflict, political divisions and his own isolation.
Rhys Kinnick, an unemployed former environmental investigative reporter, withdraws from his family and lives off the grid for seven years.
After his daughter Bethany disappears, her children Leah and Asher arrive at Rhys’s cabin.
Rhys reconnects with his grandchildren and sets out with them, but they encounter members of the Army of our Lord.
The children are taken to the group’s compound, the Rampart, and Rhys eventually rescues them and Bethany.
The Psychology Today article describes the plot and characters of So Far Gone.
- Who
- Rhys Kinnick, his daughter Bethany, and his grandchildren Leah and Asher are central to the story.
- What
- Rhys is drawn back into his family’s life after Bethany disappears and her children come to his cabin.
- When
- The story spans Rhys’s seven years living off the grid; specific dates are not stated.
- Where
- Rhys lives on his family’s sheep farm outside Spokane; the children are taken to the Rampart.
- Why
- Bethany has disappeared, prompting Leah and Asher to come to Rhys. The reason for her disappearance is not stated.
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
I felt like the world was drifting in one direction and I was going the other way
Rhys faces a crisis amid his strained family relationships and the fallout from the election.
Rhys drives to the family farm outside Spokane and withdraws from society.
Rhys lives off the grid in a cabin and writes.
Leah and Asher arrive at Rhys’s cabin.
Rhys and the children go to the Episcopal church, encounter members of the Army of our Lord, and the children are taken to the Rampart.
- Rhys Kinnick
- Unemployed former environmental investigative reporter
- Retreat
- Seven years living off the grid
- Farm location
- Outside Spokane
- Grandchildren
- Leah, 13, and Asher, 6
- Group compound
- The Rampart
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