Breakout
By: Paul Fleischman
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Cricket Books
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 124
Subjects: Runaways; Self-perception; Interpersonal relations; Traffic congestion; Foundlings; 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, her hunger for her unknown mother, and her yearning for human connection.
Notes: "A Marcato Book."