![]() ![]() He's not sure about this trip across the country.but his own mother makes it clear he doesn't have a choice. He's a drummer who wants to find his own music out in the world - because then he might not be the "normal Norman" that he fears he's become. Norman is Molly's slightly older cousin, who drives the old schoolbus. Now Barry's been drafted into that war - and Molly's mother tells her she has to travel across the country in an old schoolbus to find Barry and bring him home. Her brother Barry ran away after having a fight with their father over the war in Vietnam. Molly is a girl who's not sure she can feel anything anymore, because life sometimes hurts way too much. The remarkable story of two cousins who must take a road trip across American in 1969 in order to let a teen know he's been drafted to fight in Vietnam.įull of music and figures of the time, this is the masterful story of what it's like to be young and American in troubled times. ![]()
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