Chasing tail lights

By Patrick Jones

Subjects: Self-esteem, Family problems, Sexual abuse victims, Dysfunctional families, Coping, Incest, Teenage girls, High schools, American Teenage fiction, Child sexual abuse, Drug dealers, Coming of age, Fiction, Juvenile fiction, Drug traffic, Rape, Schools, Family life

Description: Seventeen-year-old Christy wants only to finish high school and escape her Flint, Michigan, home, where she cooks, cleans, cares for her niece, and tries to fend off her half-brother, a drug dealer who has been abusing her since she was eleven.