Chasing tail lights
By: Patrick Jones
Edition: Pbk. ed.
Publisher: Walker & Co.; Distributed to the trade by Macmillan
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780802797629
Subjects: Drug dealers; Drug traffic; Teenage girls; Coping; Family problems; Family life; Fiction; Child sexual abuse; Dysfunctional families; Sexual abuse victims; Juvenile fiction; American Teenage fiction; Coming of age; Incest; High schools; Schools; Rape; Self-esteem
Description: Seventeen-year-old Christy wants only to finish high school and escape her Flint, Michigan, home, where she cooks, cleans, cares for her niece, and tries to fend off her half-brother, a drug dealer who has been abusing her since she was eleven.