<b><b>AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • Two teenagers, in love and insane, journey across the United States in this Bonnie and Clyde–like adventure, pursuing a warped American dream, where Elvis is still king and the corn dog is the “backbone of this great country.”</b><br> <br><b>“There is a typo on page 14. Other than that, this book is perfect.” —Bill Callahan</b></b><br><br><i>“He told her he was a one-woman man and she was it for him. Teal said that was good because he was it for her. It and It. Both of them were It.”</i><br> <br>Kody Rawlee Green is stuck in juvie. Tella “Teal Cartwheels” Carticelli is packing her bags for Rome--on the orders of her parents, who want her as far from Kody as possible. But teenage love is too strong a force for the obstacles of reality. And the highway beckons.<br> <br>Leaving their abusive pasts behind them in Jersey, Kody and Teal set off on a cross-country roa
