In 1979 when his life in Mansfield, Iowa, seems to fall apart, seventeen-year-old Simon takes his father's car and sets out for Texas, looking for his birth parents and picking up a man claiming to be Elvis, two bums, and an abused young wife along the way.
year: 2003
call number/section: 1000
subjects: identity, fiction, adoption, automobile travel, parent and child, individuality