Breakout

By Paul Fleischman

Subjects: Self-perception, Traffic congestion, Interpersonal relations, Los angeles (calif.), fiction, Foster home care, fiction, Fiction, Children's fiction, Runaways, Foundlings, Self-esteem, fiction

Description: A young woman presents a play based on her life as a seventeen-year-old runaway whose escape from her foster home in Los Angeles is thwarted by an all-day traffic jam, an event which provides time for her to explore her free-floating identity, hunger for her unknown mother, and yearning for human connection.