When her foster mother dies, fifteen-year-old Mari is now the only one who can take care of her super-smart-but sometimes exasperating-on-the-spectrom nine-year-old stepbrother, Conor. Desperate to avoid being put back into the Stystem, Mari decides to set out in their old Honda sedan to find their estranged grandmother. Seizing upon Conor's obsession with the upcomingtotal eclipse of the sun, Mari convinces him to come along on a cross-country trajectory that will include a stop to view this spectacular event. As the two of them journey from the snarls of LA traffic through the backroads of the Midwest and on toward their final destination to New England, Mari learns a lot about the world around them...and about her place in it.
 
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