Title: Crashing America
Description: "After a sudden loss, a 17-year-old street punk named Girl flees San Francisco hell-bent on chasing women and adventure. When an old friend challenges her to work the harvest, the cornfields of northern Nebraska flicker with idyllic promise." "Can she bury her demons and find a place of belonging?" "Crashing America is a road story about seeking the still point on a moving highway. With language both ferocious and lyrical, Katia Noyes's debut novel connects a restless Californian with the forgotten people of the open plains creating a vivid map of the fractures in the American psyche."--Jacket.
Subjects: Farm life, Fiction, Psychology, Teenage girls, Lesbians, collection:edmund_white_award=finalist
Places: Nebraska, United States