FLIGHT OF THE SPUMONIS

<p>What drives a 13-year-old trapeze artist to run away from the circus? Marco Spolini seeks freedom from an overbearing father critical stepmother and smothering uncle. A journey of discovery takes him from New York to Los Angeles across a 1980 America beset by economic and political frustration.</p><p>Accompanied by a 15-year-old multiracial street kid named Jimmy Q and hunted by a relentless female private eye Marco encounters a legless Vietnam veteran dealing drugs while writing country songs a former porn star married to a televangelist a widowed truck driver hauling a bizarre secret a four-person softball team featuring three statuesque women an Iranian refugee pursuing the American dream in New Mexico an intellectual motorcycle gang and a California whose dark side matches its legendary sunshine.</p><p>A Huckleberry Finn</i> for our time <i>Flight of the Spumonis</i> offers a satiric moving look at an America in transition and the timeless human quest for community.</p>