She

Fiction

A nameless 15-year-old runs away to Los Angeles, seeking life beyond the harsh constraints of her evangelical upbringing. She is the narrative of her passage, from her escape on a bus through her quiet, determined progress across the city's unforgiving terrain.

The journey takes her into and around the lives of Angelinos from all walks: a dancer whose hyperactive sense of smell makes her fiancé's presence insufferable; a penniless botanist who earns her keep creating sugar-icing flowers to decorate glamorous wedding cakes she can never afford; a dentist lamenting the abuses done to the teeth of a patient for whom he has cared dutifully.

Her odd encounters, set against the backdrop of Los Angeles' flagrant wealth, cast into relief its eccentricities and the everyday trials faced by its collection of lost souls. Together these stories reflect and refract one another, illuminating a poignant, unflinching portrait of loss and the search for identity in its wake.

©2016 Michelle Latiolais (P)2016 Recorded Books

What did I just listen to??

Well, there isn't much to digest. The main story about a girl who runs away from her strict, hyper Christian home, was probably going to be pretty good, but we didn't get much into it and then it was over. In-between that story were other stories that didn't have anything to do with "Jack". Just very strange. It wanted to be a good book, but just didn't get there.