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COPYRIGHT 2004 International Reading Association Inc.
Del is a perpetual foster child caught in the Los Angeles child welfare system; at 17 she fakes her own death, buys a rusty Datsun, stores clothes and supplies in the trunk, and heads for escape on the freeway. The novel is written in two concurrent narratives--one is Del's inner monologue as she is stuck for hours in a mammoth traffic jam caused by an accident, and the other features opening night of a show called...
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