THE STORY: Lucy’s renamed herself “Luke” and, at sixteen years old, wants out of nowhere, Podunk, suburban America. She’s hiding out from yet another of her mother’s weddings with her soulmate, a statue of St. Bernadette of Lourdes, and she is waiting for Phippsy to finish delivering pizzas so they can escape to the Jersey Shore forever. But then M.J. shows up claiming to be her older brother. Together they travel back to a place of real—or imagined—memory, before the world fell apart.
An intense and funny story of a fractured family and a young girl’s escape to freedom.
Included in the collection
The Dadshuttle and Down the Shore.
