Teenager: A Novel

"Using some well-known tropes – the fleeing, road-tripping criminal couple; rebellious teens; the American West – Bud Smith, long-admired legend in the indie publishing scene, puts a new and sometimes surreal spin on them in this fast-paced phantasmagoria of a novel. Kody, a rash and sometimes delusional teenager, breaks out of juvenile detention in order to save his girlfriend, Teal, from her abusive family. The two embark on a road trip across the country, love each other hard and furiously, find and sow chaos, all the while vying for a kind of freedom that exists solely in fantasy."