Jack London 
Valley of the Moon 

Often described as a picaresque novel that set the stage for Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, published 50 years later, Jack London’s The Valley of the Moon is a complex work that is teeming with ideas. Brought to their knees by a series of devastating events that shake their world to its very foundations, married couple Billy and Saxon Roberts set out on a quixotic quest to remake their lives according to their own rules.