Driver's Education
(Book)

When he was a younger man, Alistair McPhee was fond of escaping in his '56 Chevy Bel Air, Lucy, named for the cherised wife who died and left him and their nine-year-old son Colin behind. Yearning for a way to connect to his itinerant fater, Colin turned to writing screenplays inspired by the classic films they used to watch together, while Colin's own son, Finn, grew up listening to his grandfather spin tales of danger, heartbreak, and redemption on the road. Now, at the end of his life and wishing to feel the wind in his hair one last time, alistair charges his grandson with a task: bring Lucy to him in San Francisco from New York, where a man named Yip has been keeping it safe. The long road west will lead Finn, accompanied by his disgruntled friend Randal and an ancient three-legged oragne cat named Mrs. Dalloway, through the very sities that supposedly bore witness to Alistair's greatest adventures, offering an unlikely lesson in the difference between facts and truth, between boys and men.