1200 Miles from Los Angeles

De: Steven Simon

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

When his car breaks down on his way to Los Angeles, Sanford takes a job at a small-town diner along the interstate to earn the money he needs to keep going west. He learns that his religion means something different there - for better or worse.

1200 Miles from Los Angeles is a journal novel based on Simon's experiences working at a Starbucks surrounded by Christian colleges. Of being a "token" in a new place. Simon also touches upon his feelings of "Jewish Identity." He was raised Jewish, though his mother was raised in a Jewish/Christian home (she converted "fully" before he was born), He went to Hebrew School, was Bar Mitzvah'd, and maintains a complicated connection to his Jewish self.