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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Route 69: Some Roads Only Find You When You're Ready to Leave

Route 69: Some Roads Only Find You When You're Ready to Leave

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ISBN13: 9798177919942
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 174
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Lorraine had been dead eleven days when Merri bought the RV.

For thirty-eight years, Merrin Hale was her mother's good daughter. She answered every call. She fixed every mood. She never once left without saying where she was going.

Now the phone has stopped ringing. So Merri buys a forty-one-thousand-dollar mistake with a propane leak and a crater in the mattress, names it ELSEWHERE in Sharpie on masking tape, and points it north on Route 69 with her old orange cat, Ruckus.

Two weeks in, the rig breaks down, the cat goes missing, and a stranger walks out of the ditch grass holding him. Three days later, Merri finds the stranger's obituary. He has been dead for six years.

What follows is one woman's long, strange, funny road back into her own body. Along the way there's a high-school crush twenty years late, a tech founder who asks permission for everything, a healer who teaches her to stop apologizing, a woman who brushes her hair and then steals from her, and a very careful man who wants to know where she is at all times.

And through all of it there's Ruckus, fourteen years old, bad hips, one torn ear, who knows exactly who counts.

Route 69 is a warm, frank, open-door novel about grief, freedom, and finding out what you want when there's no one left to ask.

Content note: this book includes open-door sex scenes, a mother's emotional and physical abuse (in memory), and a supernatural assault. A full content note is inside.

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