I checked this book out awhile back and cannot remember the name for the life of me. I'd like to read it again because I enjoyed it so much. On the cover, I remember a dashboard of a car. I think her feet may have been up. It was about a girl who left with her mom during the summer to go to this Buddhism camp. And she was miserable with the idea. Along the way, she started walking and met this boy who worked on cars I think. He was a bad boy and she went to go see him often. Things just went downhill from there. I can't remember and other general ideas than that. Please help. Thanks!
Fourteen-year-old Tessa has never had a normal life. Her mother, a frustrated hippie with awful taste in men, has seen to that. But when her mom pulls her out of school to live at an ashram in the Catskills, Tessa goes from being a freak among normal people to being an outcast among freaks. Freaks who worship an orange robe-wearing guru. And while her mom is buzzing with s Fourteen-year-old Tessa has never had a normal life. Her mother, a frustrated hippie with awful taste in men, has seen to that. But when her mom pulls her out of school to live at an ashram in the Catskills, Tessa goes from being a freak among normal people to being an outcast among freaks. Freaks who worship an orange robe-wearing guru. And while her mom is buzzing with spiritual energy, and finding a little too much favor with the guru, all Tessa feels are weird vibes. Unless she's with Colin, the gorgeous boy who fixes trucks for the ashram. The connection they share is the most spiritual thing Tessa has ever felt. But he's older-like illegally older-and Tessa's taking dangerous risks to spend time with him. Soon her life is blooming into a psychedelic web of secrets and lies and it's clear that something's about to give way. When it does, will she have anyone to hold on to? Will she even know herself?Revelations abound in this mind-altering novel from the acclaimed author of Almost Home. ...more