![]() In no time they are off the main highway and lost. And their driver, refusing to wait for another adult to replace their chaperones, sets off again with only the kids and a hidden bottle of booze in tow. Their adult chaperones contract food poisoning on the way back and must be dropped off at a hospital. This time will be like no other trip they've ever taken. And unbeknownst to his sister, Jake continues his one-man letter-writing campaign to the Governor, pleading for clemency for their mom.Īlong with an assortment of nervous, angry, and damaged kids, Jake and Shoshona take a community-provided school bus four times a year on the long overnight journey through New York State to visit their mother in jail. Both have found their own ways to cope: Shoshona has become a bossy mother figure Jake, who is a budding comic book artist, has created an alter ego named Jakeman. “Jake and his sister Shoshona have been under foster care since their single mother was arrested for possession and trafficking three years before. ![]()
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