Salvatore Scibona's The Volunteer offers at once a pensive exploration of how we are capable of both inventing and discovering our true families and a lacerating interrogation of institutional power at its most commanding and terrifying. Described as a “Masterpiece” by The New York Times Book Review, The Volunteer is an odyssey of loss and salvation ranging across four generations of fathers and sons, as well as a triumph in the grandest traditions of American storytelling. Scibona's first novel The End was a finalist for the National Book Award.