Description
"The first novel by Jan Kerouac, daughter of Jack--a thrilling work of autobiographical fiction that hops from Mexico to Manhattan, Sante Fe to South America, describing with inspired detail a life colored by drugs, abandonment, loss, far-flung travel, occasional danger, and like her father, a relentless quest for pure experience. "Was it January or February? The coconut fronds waving, shining like green hair in the sun, gave no clue." Fifteen-year-old Jan is pregnant, gamely living off rice and whatever fish her boyfriend John can catch in Yelapa, Mexico. She and John, who introduced her to Beckett, Kafka, Joyce, and Dostoevsky, are writing a novel together. Before she can leave for Guadalajara where she plans to deliver her baby, she goes into labor three months early, and the baby is stillborn. She turns sixteen soon after and decides to head north."-- Provided by publisher.
