Step one in the correct way to grieve…oh, if only there was a manual. Coyote and her Rodeo (don’t call him dad) are on a journey. They don’t know where or when it will end but she does remember when it began. 5 years. She has lived on this bus for 5 years and while part of her loves every moment of a life that is free, part of her is still pulled back to what was before. Follow Coyote and this meandering journey and you will wish this story would go on forever.
Five years.
Henry Holt and Co.
That’s how long Coyote and her dad, Rodeo, have lived on the road in an old school bus, criss-crossing the nation.
It’s also how long ago Coyote lost her mom and two sisters in a car crash.
Coyote hasn’t been home in all that time, but when she learns that the park in her old neighborhood is being demolished―the very same park where she, her mom, and her sisters buried a treasured memory box―she devises an elaborate plan to get her dad to drive 3,600 miles back to Washington state in four days…without him realizing it.
Along the way, they’ll pick up a strange crew of misfit travelers. Lester has a lady love to meet. Salvador and his mom are looking to start over. Val needs a safe place to be herself. And then there’s Gladys…
Over the course of thousands of miles, Coyote will learn that going home can sometimes be the hardest journey of all…but that with friends by her side, she just might be able to turn her “once upon a time” into a “happily ever after.”
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