Amaranthine Chevrolet

Description

A teenage boy's uncanny road trip across a radically changing country.

In the year 1967, fifteen-year-old Robin Wallenco steals an antique pickup truck and heads west from Saskatchewan, driving on farmland and unmapped roads to avoid police. Like Odysseus striving toward home, he encounters trying situations: men on the run, hippies creating utopia, marijuana farmers, mechanical breakdowns, a raging forest fire. Robin passes through a massively changing society — a rural culture that, though eroding, hangs on to values of kindness and endurance, and one in which Robin must be both heroic and vulnerable.

As the miles roll out, Robin's story becomes at once heartbreaking and heartwarming, an indirect look at childhood trauma through the eyes of a wildly brave yet non-comprehending victim.

A RARE MACHINES BOOK