Release Date: June 6, 2023
About The Book:
Thirteen-year-old Evan Hanson is always the last in her family to know what’s going on; at least, that’s how it feels. When her brother gets drafted to Vietnam, her anti-war mother takes him to Canada, leaving Evan and her younger, special needs brother with their army-officer father—who, unwilling to shoulder the burden of caring for his kids, takes them to their grandmother’s roadside cafe and home. At Eat and Get Gas, Evan encounters a cast of characters she both likes and fears and eventually learns a big family secret that changes how she feels about everyone and everything.
About The Author:
J.A. (Jodi) Wright was raised in the United States Pacific Northwest and moved to New Zealand in 1990. She is the author of the award-winning novel, How to Grow an Addict, which has secured over 800 Amazon five-star ratings/reviews. For more information: www.jawright.net
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Book Blurbs:
… Eat and Get Gas ticks all of the boxes for a truly satisfying read.”- Deborah K. Shepard, author of So Happy Together
“… poignant and raw and honest. This is one of those books that, when you put it down, you find yourself weeks later wondering how the characters are doing. It will be hard to forget…”- Cindy Eastman, author of Flip-Flops After 50
“Storytelling at its best, Eat and Get Gas grabs the reader from page one and doesn’t let go!”- Laurie Buchanan, author of the Sean McPhearson novels
“Eat and Get Gas kept me from sleep right up to the perfectly pitched ending.”- Jenni Ogden, award winning author of A Drop in the Ocean and Call My Name
“Tender moments of genuine connection mix with hard truths in Eat and Get Gas, a poignant coming-of-age novel in which a teenager from a complicated family forges new, life-giving bonds.” – Foreward Reviews
“Surrounded by a cast of quirky characters and damaged adults, [Evan] learns a new definition of family, the cost of untold secrets, and the value of her burgeoning self-esteem. Eat and Get Gas is a powerful story about a sad chapter in America’s history that is thoroughly modern, relevant, and inspiring.” —Anne Leigh Parrish, author of An Open Door
“Eat and Get Gas is a compelling and affecting read that highlights experiences I haven’t often seen in fiction. This masterful study of family acts as a microcosm of Vietnam War–era America and expresses extremely well the way the trauma of this war reverberates deeply and widely. The book hums with a deep sense of love, in complicated and sometimes painful situations, and describes a group of people loving each other in ways that are complicated and poignant.”—Pip Adam, author of Nothing to See, The New Animals, I’m Working on a Building, and the short-story collection Everything We Hoped For
“Great cast of characters, a compelling story, and convincingly told.”—Joe Bennett, New Zealand columnist and travel writer
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