Looking for Redfeather
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Publisher Description
Life is a highway...
Fifteen-year-old Ramie Redfeather leaves Cheyenne with music in his pocket and his thumb in the air. He's looking to find his father, a man he's never met. Ramie gets a ride with Chas Sweeney, a seventeen-year-old driving a "borrowed" Cadillac Eldorado with Maryland tags, who just happens to be passing through Cheyenne. Chas is running from the wreckage that is his world, sixteen hundred miles away. In Denver Ramie and Chas meet Mae B. LaRoux, an enchanting young singer from Baton Rouge. LaRoux, who struggles with a learning disability, is on a mission to become a professional musician. The three runaways band together and set out on a fast-paced road trip to get to the Austin Music Festival, looking for Redfeather along the way.
"Looking for Redfeather" takes place on the road --but it's not Kerouac's road trip! A twenty-first century teenage road adventure.
Fiction/Young Adult/Coming-of-Age/Road Trip
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Three teens embark on a soul-searching road trip in this introspective coming-of-age story. Fifteen-year-old Ramie Redfeather is looking for the musician father after whom he's named. Chas Sweeney, 17, is driving the classic Cadillac he swiped from his grandmother, intent on escaping his disastrous life. And 16-year-old Mae B. LaRoux is a singer determined to make her name at a music festival in Austin. Thrown together by the vagaries of the road, they become fast friends and traveling companions. As their journey takes them from one city to another in search of gas money, adventure, and the occasional concert, they share the truths and pains of their respective pasts. Collison (Star-Crossed) has a strong handle on characterization and atmosphere, though the meandering plot suffers from the same indecisive nature as the characters, stalling right around the same time they settle in for a psychedelic, mushroom-fueled trip. A slightly removed tone and some overly poetic language ("They were hobos waiting for an opportunity, a train to hop, a star to fall") can be distracting, but the story remains an engaging journey of self-discovery. Ages 14 up. (BookLife)
