Close your eyes, hold hands
Subtitle: a novel
By: Chris Bohjalian
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9780385534833; 9780385681926; 9780385681940; 9780307743930
Subjects: Runaways; Nuclear accidents; Fiction; Runaway teenagers; Teenage girls
Description: Six months ago, a nuclear plant in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom experienced a cataclysmic meltdown, and both of Emily's parents were killed. Her father was in charge of the plant-- was he drunk when it happened? Instead of following the rest of the refugees after the meltdown, Emily takes off on her own for Burlington, where she survives by stealing, sleeping on the floor of a drug dealer's apartment, and inventing a new identity for herself. When Emily befriends Cameron, a homeless boy, she protects him with a ferocity she didn't know she had. But can she outrun her past, or escape her grief?