Evison, Jonathan

"After his wife's death, a man brings his young daughter to live in a cave he has found in the Cascade mountains. Once there, his daughter begins to sense the presence of other people in the cave, a mother and son who retreated there during the last ice age in an effort to survive"--Provided by publisher.

Mike Munoz is a young Mexican American not too many years out of high school--and just fired from his latest gig as a lawn boy on a landscaping crew. Though he tries time and again to get his foot on the first rung of that ladder to success, he can't seem to get a break.

Fresh out of high school, Mike Mu?oz works menial jobs but dreams of achieving more for himself. Facing systemic and cultural discrimination, along with his own mistakes Mike wants to find a way to overcome the hardship of a system that seems to want him to fail and discover his own version of the American Dream.

"Mike Mun?oz is a young Mexican American not too many years out of high school--and just fired from his latest gig as a lawn boy on a landscaping crew. Though he tries time and again to get his foot on the first rung of that ladder to success, he can't seem to get a break. But then things start to change for Mike, and after a raucous, jarring, and challenging trip, he finds he can finally see the future and his place in it"--.

A narrative set in a fictional town on Washington State's Pacific coast contrasts the goals of the pioneers who settled there in 1890 with the trivial pursuits of the town's present-day inhabitants.

After losing virtually everything meaningful in his life, Benjamin trains to be a caregiver, but his first client, a fiercely independent teen with muscular dystrophy, gives him more than he bargained for and soon the two embark on a road trip to visit the boy's ailing father.