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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Kaufman, Sashi.

The other way around / Sashi Kaufman.

pages cm

Summary: To escape his offbeat family at Thanksgiving, Andrew West accepts a ride from a band of street performers who get their food and clothing from dumpsters, but as he learns more about these “Freegans” he sees that one cannot outrun the past.

ISBN 978–1–4677–0262–1 (trade hard cover : alk. paper)

ISBN 978–1–4677–2404–3 (eBook)

[1. Runaways—Fiction. 2. Street entertainers—Fiction. 3. Homeless persons—Fiction. 4. Mothers and sons—Fiction. 5. Family problems—Fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.K16467Oth 2014

[Fic]—dc23

2013017670

Manufactured in the United States of America

1 – SB – 12/31/13
eISBN: 978-1-4677-2404-3 (pdf)
eISBN: 978-1-4677-3988-7 (ePub)
eISBN: 978-1-4677-3989-4 (mobi)