The Sunset Route: Freight Trains, Forgiveness, and Freedom on the Rails in the American West

Name: The Sunset Route: Freight Trains, Forgiveness, and Freedom on the Rails in the American West
Brand: Penguin Young Readers Group
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By Carrot Quinn

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Wild meets Educated in this incredible memoir about how one woman left behind her hardscrabble childhood in Alaska to travel the country via freight trains, discover the redemptive power of nature, and ultimately find herself. After a neglected childhood spent on welfare and in and out of homelessness in Alaska, raised by a mother who believed she was the reincarnation of the Virgin Mary, Carrot Quinn moved out on her own. She found a sense of belonging with a bunch of straight-edge anarchists who taught her how to traverse the country by freight trains, sleep in fields under the stars, and find her food by foraging in dumpsters. Her new life was one of thrilling adventure and freedom, but still, the ghosts of her lonely and traumatic childhood continued to haunt her. The Sunset Route is a powerful and brazenly honest adventure memoir set in the unseen corners of the United States--in the Alaskan cold, on trains rattling through forests and deserts, as well as in low-income apartments and crowded punk houses--following a remarkable protagonist who has witnessed more tragedy than she thought she could ever hold and who must learn to heal her own heart. Ultimately, it is a meditation on the natural world as a spiritual anchor, and on the ways that forgiveness can set us free.

Product details

Edition:: 1
Number of Pages:: 320
Release Date:: 2021-07-06
Publication Date:: 2021-07-06
Publisher:: Penguin Young Readers Group
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 0593133285
ISBN13:: 9780593133286
Weight:: 435 g
Height:: 151 cm
Width:: 218 cm
Thickness:: 30 cm

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