A modern-day love story that explores childhood trauma, the boundaries between idealism and self-righteousness, and the heartaches we must confront in order to chart our courses forward.
Manmade Constellations is a smart, magnetic, and emotional novel dedicated to the American landscape, exploring how taking to the open road teaches lessons that can\'t be learned at home..
Memories of his negligent mother and the death of his father resurface for the first time in years as he travels across the country searching for what comes next.
Meanwhile, Blanche\'s son, Jason, finds himself adrift after an argument with his girlfriend.
Despite vastly different backgrounds, they share an electrifying mutual attraction that threatens to upend Lo\'s carefully constructed worldview.
She\'s helped by John Blank, a Southern auto mechanic who moved up north for a fresh start.
Before she can decide whether to fulfill Blanche\'s dying wish, she needs to get the car started.
Blanche Peterson is dying and asks for a single favor--that Lo track down her estranged son, whom Blanche hasn\'t seen in over a decade.
Though it doesn\'t cost any money, it still comes with a price.
To maintain her staunch anticapitalist values, she refuses to spend money on what she can find for free, so this car is the perfect ticket out of the town.
Lo Gunderson feels trapped in her small midwestern hometown until she sees an ad for a free car in the local paper.
A modern-day love story that explores childhood trauma, the boundaries between idealism and self-righteousness, and the heartaches we must confront in order to chart our courses forward
