A Ticket to Ride - Hardcover

."poet and memoirist McLain compels as she excavates two tragedies." -- Chicago Sun-Times

"Absorbing, tantalizing, and super-heated as an endless summer day."--Michelle Wildgen, author of You're Not You

."..a haunting coming-of-age story...sun-dazzled prose that hides a cold, foreboding underbelly...gorgeous writing."--Gillian Flynn, author of Sharp Objects

"Paula McLain has put a poet's ear to the urgency of adolescence...a strong throb of a first novel."--Cleveland Plain Dealer

."..a vivid portrait of the summer of '73...the relationships it expores are timeless...a genuine literary accomplishment."--Dan Chaon, author of You Remind Me of Me

"[McLain's] writing is gorgeous, and Jamie and Fawn are heartbreakingly real."--Katrina Kittle, author of The Kindness of Strangers

"Filled with mystery and longing, McLain lays bare the raw emotion that guides us all..."--Ann Hood, author of The Knitting Circle

."..[A] beautifully written book...deeply felt and engrossing--an immense pleasure to read."--Leah Stewart, author of The Myth of You and Me

"Assured and ambitious... the complicated bonds of a makeshift family... lyrical precision. A deft and haunting book."--Katharine Noel, author of Halfway House

."..poet and memoirist McLain compels as she excavates two tragedies."--Chicago Sun-Times