Truck

A Novel

By: Katherine Dunn

Narrated by: Lauren Ezzo

With daring realism and stunning imagination, the author of Geek Love, Katherine Dunn, takes us on a journey into the mind of a feisty, adventurous adolescent named Jean "Dutch" Gillis. Dutch goes "trucking" from Portland, Oregon, to Los Angeles on a quest in search of herself, which, like the river trek of Deliverance, is filled with discoveries and sudden violence.

With boyish-looking Dutch is her friend Heydorf, a shadowy character who has his own secrets to hide. With her, too, is the confusion and volatile feelings of youth, when sex is a mystery waiting to be understood...and death seems remote until it brushes close with a breath-stopping suddenness. Truck, perhaps better than any other fictional account about a runaway, is a brilliantly convincing portrait of the archetypal teen rebel, and both the excitement and the terrible betrayals in the world she explores.

©1971 Katherine Dunn (P)2019 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

Unfortunately I did not enjoy this story

I read Geek Love 25 years ago and really liked the quirky characters and storyline. Being new to audio books, this is only my third, I was excited to listen to another book by this author. Unfortunately I did not like this one. Very disjointed and a no real ending. I’ll keep trying.