Title: Breakout
First published: 2003
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.
Subjects: Fiction, Runaways, Self-perception, Interpersonal relations, Traffic congestion, Foundlings, Children's fiction, Self-esteem, fiction, Foster home care, fiction, Los angeles (calif.), fiction, Juvenile fiction, Missing persons
Places: Los Angeles (Calif.)
LC classification: PZ7.F599233 Br 2003