Road Trip

by Lynette D'Amico

Overview

On this road trip, the past is a boneyard, up ahead is the end of the
line, and along the way Myra Stark and Pinkie are driving a 1984
Plymouth Turismo from Minnesota through Wisconsin. The travelers pick
up a battered hitchhiker, follow a detour into the darkly comic Stark
family history, and veer off track more than once. "Road Trip" is a
narrative of disappointment and failed rescues; about the ghosts that
haunt us and the relationships we leave behind.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940151421843
Publisher:	Twelve Winters Press
Publication date:	06/18/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	96
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Lynette D’Amico worked in publishing and advertising for a decade or longer. Today, she is a former ad writer and a graduate of the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. Her work has appeared in The Gettysburg Review, The Ocean State Review and at Brevity and Slag Glass City. Road Trip was originally a finalist for the Paris Literary Prize and, as part of a collection, for the 2012 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. She is the content editor for the online performance journal HowlRound. Born in Buffalo, New York, she has lived in St. Louis, Minneapolis, and Chicago. She makes her home in Boston with her love Polly Carl, but she has a prairie eye.

Editorial Reviews

A slide-show comical tall tale, a sex-adventure punctured by a set of farm-life ghost stories, an angry and hungering throwing-down elegy – Lynette D'Amico's Road Trip is the fictional carnival ride you could only ever wildly imagine. An unforgettable portrait takes shape here as this enthralling, unorthodox narrator loses her purpose, loses her destination, loses sight of all dividing lines, and, finally, loses orientation to the road itself.

author of The Complete History of New Mexico - Kevin McIlvoy

The book has more twists and turns than you imagine a novella can handle and almost all of them are gentle. Of course, there is bold surprise when the form and the subject crash together in delight and the whole book lights up in your hands.

author of Rules for Werewolves - Kirk Lynn

What a curious and poignant and elegant ride this is ... taking me places I never thought I'd go, with people I grow fonder and fonder of, the more I know of their lives. And this reveal comes slowly, the layers falling away, as we get closer to the final destination.

author of The Paperbark Shoe - Goldie Goldbloom

In a prose densely textured and astonishingly visceral, Lynette D'Amico invents a type of Midwestern Gothic all her own, and a queer Expressionism for the twenty-first century.

author of Awkward: A Detour - Mary Cappello