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BACK ROADS
A Novel
A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE: Funny and heartbreaking, this New York Times bestselling debut perfectly captures the maddening confusion of adolescence and the prickly nature of family with irony and unerring honesty.
Harley Altmyer should be in college having the time of his life. He should be free from the backwards Pennsylvania coal town he calls home, with its lack of jobs and no sense of humor. Instead, he's constantly reminded of just how messed up everything is.
Harley's mother is in prison for killing his father, so he's in charge of bringing up his younger sisters and working two jobs to pay the billsand that doesn't leave a lot of time for distractions. But lately, he's getting more and more sidetracked by lusting after Callie Mercer, his middle-aged neighbor. As he struggles to keep it together, things begin to spin out of control. Soon Harley finds that as shattered as his family is, there are still more crushing surprises in store.
Tawni O'Dell is the New York Times bestselling author of Sister Mine, Coal Run, and Back Roads, which was an Oprah Book Club selection and a Book-of-the-Month Club Main Selection. She lives in Pennsylvania with her two children and her husband, literary translator Bernard Cohen.
Harley's mother is in prison for killing his father, so he's in charge of bringing up his younger sisters and working two jobs to pay the billsand that doesn't leave a lot of time for distractions. But lately, he's getting more and more sidetracked by lusting after Callie Mercer, his middle-aged neighbor. As he struggles to keep it together, things begin to spin out of control. Soon Harley finds that as shattered as his family is, there are still more crushing surprises in store.
Tawni O'Dell is the New York Times bestselling author of Sister Mine, Coal Run, and Back Roads, which was an Oprah Book Club selection and a Book-of-the-Month Club Main Selection. She lives in Pennsylvania with her two children and her husband, literary translator Bernard Cohen.
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Published 2000-01-01 by Viking |
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Published 2000-01-01 by Viking |