Jack Kerouac Is Dead To Me

Fifteen-year-old JL Markhams life used to be filled with carnival nights and hot summer days spent giggling with her forever best friend Aubrey about their families and boys. Together, they were unstoppable. But they arent the friends they once were. With JLs father gone on long term business and her mother suffering from dissociative disorder, JL takes solace in the in the tropical butterflies she raises, and in her new, older boyfriend, Max Gordon. Max may be rough on the outside, but he has the soul of a poet something Aubrey will never understand. Only, Max is about to graduate, and hes going to hit the road - with or without JL. JL