Shoup, Barbara

While accompanying her daughter and husband to freshman college orientation, Nora hears someone call her by a name she hasn't heard in 25 years. Not even her husband knows that she used to be Jane Barth, a student deeply involved in the 1960s anti-war movement. Now a wife and mother living quietly in northern Michigan, Nora must finally confront her past and all the lies that she's told through the years.

Inspired by Jack Kerouac's "On the Road," Paul Carpetti, who is disillusioned with his life in 1964 suburbia, and fellow Kerouac enthusiast Duke Walczek begin hitchhiking to Florida to find their literary hero.

Eighteen-year-old Emma, a freshman at Indiana University, has enough trouble trying to figure out relationships but when her father wins fifty million dollars in a lottery, life becomes even more confusing and complicated.

A high school senior tries to cope with the shifting patterns of his life while struggling to come to terms with his parents' divorce, his best friend's sudden departure, his mother's remarriage, and his father's nearly-fatal accident.

Eighteen-year-old Emma, a freshman at Indiana University, has enough trouble trying to figure out relationships but when her father wins fifty million dollars in a lottery, life becomes even more confusing and complicated.

While struggling with the changes he faces during his senior year in a small Indiana town, Lucas gains insight through a unique friendship with a former Vietnam war protester.

A high school senior tries to cope with the shifting patterns of his life while struggling to come to terms with his parents' divorce, his best friend's sudden departure, his mother's remarriage, and his father's nearly-fatal accident.