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Back Roads

Nineteen-year-old Harley Altmyer's dreams of escaping his backwoods Pennsylvania town for college ere brutally shattered the night his mother shot and killed his abusive father. Now, with his mom serving a life term in prison, he's working two dead-end jobs and taking care of his three younger sisters. His only joys in life are beer and his beautiful, but married, neighbor. Sparked by their affair and secrets from within hi s family coming to light, a chain of events unfolds that threatens to destroy what is left of his world.

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  • "Nineteen-year-old Harley Altmyer's dreams of escaping his backwoods Pennsylvania town for college ere brutally shattered the night his mother shot and killed his abusive father. Now, with his mom serving a life term in prison, he's working two dead-end jobs and taking care of his three younger sisters. His only joys in life are beer and his beautiful, but married, neighbor. Sparked by their affair and secrets from within hi s family coming to light, a chain of events unfolds that threatens to destroy what is left of his world."@en
  • "At nineteen, Harley Altmyer is marooned in his Pennsylvania coal town caring for three sisters while his mother serves a prison sentence for killing his abusive father. Overburdened with the practicalities of life, while his friends escape to college and he bags groceries, the loving but brutal Harley sees the three girls -- Amber, Misty, and Jody -- as his burdens. When Callie Mercer moves in with her two children down the road, Harley's lustful drive begins to shake up his existence over her. Soon their relationship causes Harley to uncover old memories and devastating family secrets."@en
  • "Pitch perfect characters capture the adolesence andthe prickly nature of family with irony and unerring honesty."
  • "A young man must raise his three younger sisters in the Pennsylvania backwoods after their mother goes to jail for killing their abusive father."@en
  • "Harley Altmyer should be in college drinking Rolling Rock and chasing girls. He should be freed from his closed-minded, stricken coal town, with its lack of jobs and no sense of humor. Instead, he's constantly reminded of just how messed up his life is. With his mother in jail for killing his abusive father, Harley is an orphan with the responsibilities of an adult and the fiery, aggressive libido of a teenager. Just nineteen years old, he's marooned in the Pennsylvania backwoods caring for his three younger sisters, whose feelings about him range from stifling dependence to loathing. And once he develops an obsession with the sexy, melancholic mother of two living down the road, those Victoria's Secret catalogs just won't do the trick anymore. He wants Callie Mercer so badly he fears he will explode. But it's the family secrets, the lies, and the unspoken truths that light the fuse and erupt into a series of staggering surprises, leaving what's left of his family in tatters. Through every ordeal, the unforgettable Harley could never know that his endearing humor, his love for his sisters, and his bumbling heroics would redeem them all."@en
  • "With his mother in jail for killing his abusive father, nineteen-year-old Harley Altmyer is charged with caring for his three sisters in a backwards Pennsylvania coal town, but despite his fatherly responsibilities, he is still a teenage boy and lusts after the mother of two who lives down the road."
  • "A novel on a dysfunctional family in a Pennsylvania coal-mining town. The mother is in jail for killing the father and the four children are on their own. They are supported by the eldest, Harley Altmyer, 20, who is having an affair with the mother of a friend of his sister."@en
  • "With his abusive father dead and his mother in jail, 19-year old Harley Altmyer has given up on college to care for his three needy younger sisters. Can he rise to the occassion?"@en
  • ""With his mother in jail for killing his abusive father, Harley is an orphan with the responsibilities of an adult and the fiery, aggressive libido of a teenager. He's marooned in a coal town in Pennsylvania stuck taking care of his three younger sisters. Eventually, the family secrets, the lies, and the unspoken truths come to haunt him and erupt into a series of staggering surprises, leaving what's left of his family in tatters."--Container."

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