<b>From the author of <i>Like No Other</i>, the novel <i>Entertainment Weekly</i> calls &quot;One of the most poignant and star-crossed love stories since<i>The Fault in Our Stars</i>&quot;: What if the last hope to save your family is the person who broke it up to begin with?</b><br><b></b><br><b><i>Michelle </i></b>and her little siblings Cass and Denny are African-American and living on the poverty line in urban Baltimore, struggling to keep it together with their mom in jail and only Michelle’s part-time job at the Taco Bell to sustain them.<br><br><b><i>Leah</i> </b>and her stepbrother Tim are white and middle class from suburban Maryland, with few worries beyond winning lacrosse games and getting college applications in on time.<br><br>Michelle and Leah only have <b>one thing in common</b>: Buck Devereaux, the biological father who abandoned them when they were little.<br><br>After news trickles back to them that Buck is dying, they make the uneasy decision to drive across country to his hospice in California. Leah hopes for closure; Michelle just wants to give him a piece of her mind.<br><br>Five people in a failing, old station wagon, living off free samples at food courts across America, and the most pressing question on Michelle’s mind is: Who will break down first--herself or the car? All the signs tell her they won’t make it. But Michelle has heard that her whole life, and it’s never stopped her before....<br><br>Una LaMarche triumphs once again with this rare and compassionate look at how racial and social privilege affects one family in crisis in both subtle and astonishing ways.