Regrets and Promises Author:Dennis McGarry Ken Malone, a streetwise city boy of fourteen, isn't at all surprised when his alcoholic father decides to send him three thousand miles away to live with his older sister, Cindy. But when Cindy can't take him in after he arrives, even Ken is shocked to find himself on his own in the foreign land of rural Michigan. With no where else to go, he s... more »ticks out his thumb and starts the seemingly insurmountable and futile task of hitchhiking back to California, back to the father who had never wanted him in the first place.