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Andrew has seen a flash of his future Dad unfinished PhD Mom unfulfilling career Their marriage unsuccessful Based on what hes seen hes uninspired to put a foot on the well-worn path to the adulthood everyone expects of him There must be another way around After a particularly disastrous Thanksgiving his cousin wets Andrews bed his parents were too chicken to tell him his grandmother died Andrew accidentally on purpose runs away and joins the circus Kind of A guy can meet the most interesting people at the Greyhound station at dinnertime on Thanksgiving day The Freegans are exactly the kinds of friends living out of an ancient VW camper van dumpster diving dressing like clowns and busking for changenbspwho would have Andrews mom reaching for a third glass of Chardonnay To Andrew five teenagers who seem like theyve found another way to grow up are a dream come true But as the VW winds its way across the USA the future is anything but certain The path of least resistance is a long strange trip.
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Sashi Kaufman is a middle school science and English teacher who lives in Portland, Maine with her husband and daughter. She loves contemporary YA, survival stories of all kinds, and journeys large and small. She is an amateur trash-picker and apologizes now if she has ever poached anything you did not mean to leave on the curb. She hates caraway seeds.
