Breakout
By: Paul Fleischman.
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 137
Subjects: Self-perception -- Fiction; Interpersonal relations -- Fiction; Runaways -- Fiction; Foundlings -- Fiction; Traffic congestion -- Fiction; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: A young woman presents a play based on her life as a seventeen-year-old runaway whose escape from her foster home in Los Angeles is thwarted by an all-day traffic jam, an event which provides time for her to explore her free-floating identity, hunger for her unknown mother, and yearning for human connection.