Breakout

Type

Book

Authors

Paul Fleischman

ISBN 10

0689871899

ISBN 13

9780689871894

Tags

Performing Arts, Orphans & Foster Homes, Being a Teen, Family, Music, Film

Description

Del's lived in Los Angeles for seventeen years, bouncing among foster homes. Smart, sharp-tongued, and a master mimic, she's fed up with her world and with being Del. So she's changing her name and leaving both herself and L.A. behind -- until her escape lands her in an all-day traffic jam. Fast-forward eight years. It's opening night for the one-woman show Del has written and is starring in -- a show called Breakout about a Los Angeles traffic jam. As the novel flashes between Del's present and future, we get a backstage pass into this young playwright's psyche, watching her life being transformed into art, heartache into comedy, solitude into connection. And, finally, anger giving way to acceptance. - from Amzon

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