American mythology

"A charming and comic debut novel about a quirky ensemble who embark on an epic quest to find bigfoot. Every month at St. Pete's Tavern in rugged western Montana, a meeting is convened by the Basic Bigfoot Society's members-both of them. Jute and Vergil are lifelong friends, bound by an affinity for the elusive North American Wood Ape. Jute more so than Vergil, having once had a disturbing encounter as a teenager with his father in the Elkhorn mountain range. But their monthly meeting and annual expeditions are a tradition that keep their friendship alive when so much else about their small town has fallen away: all the lucrative mining jobs, Jute's own father, Vergil's late wife, as well as his sharp daughter Rye, who's now a full two hours away at college. But things are about to get exciting for the Basic Bigfoot Society. The primatologist Dr. Marcus Bernard, once an esteemed scholar and now perhaps the country's foremost Bigfoot "expert," introduces himself after the Society's proceedings with a tantalizing proposition: to join their next expedition with an ambitious young documentarian, Vicky Xu.