Niagara Motel / Ashley Little.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Little, Ashley, 1983- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cheers (Television program)--Fiction.

Cheers (Television program).

Fathers and sons--Fiction.

Fathers and sons.

Voyages and travels.

Voyages and travels--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

253 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Vancouver : Arsenal Pulp Press, [2016]

Summary:

Set in the early 1990s, Ashley Little s follow-up to her award-winning novel Anatomy of a Girl Gang introduces readers to eleven-year-old Tucker Malone the only child of a narcoleptic touring stripper who believes his father is Sam Malone, the Boston barkeep who regularly appears on Tucker s TV screen. He and his mother move from motel to motel until, one night in Niagara Falls, his mother is hit by a car after falling asleep in the street. Tucker is sent to live in a youth group home where he meets Meredith, a pregnant sixteen-year-old with hopes of her own; he convinces her to join him on a road trip across the border to America in order to find his father, which takes them from Boston to the west coast. Along the way they encounter some of the most notorious criminals of the 1990s, and arrive in Los Angeles just as the Rodney King riots are unfolding. His cross-country search becomes an epic depiction of mid-90s America at a crossroads as seen through the eyes of a boy, for whom finding his father is the one thing that will make him whole.

Notes:

"A novel"--Cover.

Other Format:

Little, Ashley, 1983- Niagara motel.

ISBN:

9781551526607

1551526603

9781551526614

1551526611

OCLC:

945949032