Crashing America.Crashing America Katia Noyes Alyson Books, $14.95 In literature the typical American road trip--a la Jack Kerouac's On the Road--begins in a red state and ends in a blue. Girl, the queer street Queer Street condition of financial insolvency. [Am. Usage: Misc.] See : Bankruptcy punk in Katia Noyes's debut novel, on the other hand, approaches this intrinsic search for home in the reverse, traveling from her frantic life in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden to the lonely heartland of the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . Just off each interstate highway exit, from Utah to Nebraska to Tennessee, is another chance at belonging. Girl's serendipitous ser·en·dip·i·ty n. pl. ser·en·dip·i·ties 1. The faculty of making fortunate discoveries by accident. 2. The fact or occurrence of such discoveries. 3. An instance of making such a discovery. human interactions, with characters ranging from a Salt Lake City housewife to a born-again Christian rocker, remind us that traveling isn't about geography or gas prices--it's about finding strangers, becoming friends, and then leaving them behind. |
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