Road Tripped

"Superb road trip novel. By turns introspective and humorous." --Booklist (starred review) In this captivating story about loss, love, and changing your ways, National Book Award--winning author Pete Hautman imbues the classic road trip novel with clever wit and heartfelt musings about life and death. Steven Gerald Gabel--a.k.a. Stiggy--needs to get out of Minnesota. His father recently took his own life, his mother is a shell of the person she used to be, and his sort-of-girlfriend ghosted him and skipped town. What does he have left to stick around for? Armed with his mom´s credit card and a tourist map of Great River Road, Stiggy sets off in his dad´s car. The only problem is, life on his own isn´t exactly what he expected and, soon enough, he finds himself at a crossroads: keep running from his demons, or let them hitch a ride back home with him.