Departures

ISBN: 0312321287

Title: Departures

Author: Lorna J. Cook

KDL Description:

Increasingly dismayed by her raucous family, seventeen-year-old Suzan VanderZee dreams of running away, while her fifteen-year-old brother, Evan, finds himself mesmerized by a new girl at school despite his hopes to travel the world.

Amazon Description:

From Booklist
The Vanderzees are always going somewhere, if only in their minds. Suzen is on the verge of graduating from high school, but college isn’t where she wants to go, nor is she being honest about who she really is. Perhaps she is too preoccupied with the comings and goings of her mother, whose mysterious phone calls and indifference to the domesticities of the Vanderzee household have become painfully obvious. Then there’s young Evan, who seems to be the only one who is actually going where he wants to, but he’s chosen an unbalanced companion in Soci, a first love who represents all things rebellious. While they desperately try to sort through their lives, Suzen’s father sits in his den leafing through old travel magazines, endlessly planning a trip to Italy that he never seems to take. Cook expertly communicates the very cryptic nature of life’s cycles, conveying through her entertaining family that life is always in transition, no matter how stable it appears.