Young, desperate and on the run...
"Too much had happened and I wanted out, and there was only one way I knew how to get out. That was to just pick up and leave it all behind. I wanted to live and I knew if I stayed in that town, it would eventually kill me. If not physically, then emotionally and spiritually. The only thing worse than not having a dream to hold onto is holding onto one that you might never realize. So, that’s one reason I was leaving. I just didn’t know then it wasn’t the choice I should be making." -- Hunter Leroux;
narrator, American Odyssey: A Teenage Runaway's Memoir |
A little about Brian M. Gelinas
...author, journalist, screenwriter... A former reporter for a regional daily newspaper, Gelinas lives in the Massachusetts town of Athol, where he was born and raised. He was instilled early on with a desire to write, and his first non-journalistic success came with the publication of a creative commentary piece in Worcester Magazine. In 2001, he won the Louis P. Shepherd Award in Creative Writing while a student at Fitchburg State College (now Fitchburg State University).
Of his first published novel, American Odyssey: A Teenage Runaway's Memoir, he says: "I believe the story speaks straightforwardly to today's teenagers about some of what they might be going through in their own lives, and captures the raw emotions and uncertainty of adolescence." |