The flying Troutmans

Summary: Meet the Troutmans. The impetuous Hattie has just been dumped by her Paris boyfriend; her sister, Min, is going through a particularly dark period; and Min's two kids, Logan and Thebes, are not talking, and talking way too much, respectively. So when Hattie receives an SOS call from eleven-year-old Thebes, she grabs the first plane home. There she discovers that Min is on her way to a psychiatric ward, and Hattie assumes responsibility for the kids. She quickly realizes that she is way out of her league and harches a hare-brained plan to find the kids' long-lost father. With only the most tenuous lead to go on, she piles Logan and Thebes into their Ford Aerostar, and armed with some art supplies, a mondo pair of headphones, a cooler full of food, and a hope and a prayer, they hit the road and head south. What ensues is a frantic expedition during which Hattie attempts to reconcile a tricky past with Minl Logan carves cryptic messages into the van's dashboard; Thebes makes and distributes oversize novelty cheques to anybody who needs ones; and the threesome discovers that while freedom has its costs, it also has its payoffs. At once hilarious and heartrending, The Flying Troutmans tells the story of a fractured family on the verge of spinning off its axles and a road trip that just might keep them together.

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