Chasing tail lights

Description:

Seventeen-year-old Christy wants only to finish high school and escape her Flint, Michigan, home, where she cooks, cleans, cares for her niece, and tries to fend off her half-brother, a drug dealer who has been abusing her since she was eleven.

subjects: Drug dealers,  Drug traffic,  Teenage girls,  Coping,  Family problems,  Family life,  Fiction,  Child sexual abuse,  Dysfunctional families,  Sexual abuse victims,  Juvenile fiction,  American Teenage fiction,  Coming of age,  Incest,  High schools,  Schools,  Rape,  Self-esteem

Places: Flint (Mich.),  Michigan,  Flint