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Caroline Crane’s *Stranger on the Road* follows the desperate journey of a teenage girl who feels suffocated by the increasing pressures of life with her mother and stepfather. Determined to escape her unhappy home, she takes to the open road and begins hitchhiking across the country. With each new stop, she inches closer to her ultimate goal: locating her true father in California. Through moments of fear and fleeting hope, her trek becomes a powerful exploration of family, belonging, and the pursuit of identity.
First publish date: 1971
Genre: Coming of Age/Teen Coming of Age
Authors: Caroline Crane
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