The One True Story of the World Author:Lynne McFall Jesse Walker thinks she knows the difference between running away and moving on. Strong-willed, independent and mortally confused, she has mastered a talent for leaving that she learned from her father., who sailed off into the sunset when she was ten. — Now at thirty-four, Jesse comes home from a soul-selling job, tells her ambivalent married lo... more »ver good-bye, instructs her landlady to keep her deposit and furniture, and heads west on Route 90 -- drunk in a car with no headlights. As she cuts an erratric set of tire tracks through the northeastern snow, she begins a journey that will take her cross-country by way of love an heartbreak, shocking violence, and ultimately, triumph over her haunting childhood abandonment.« less