I thought I was used to living alone, but I still long for someone to be looking for me at this moment. The genius writer Clement is read by literary giants!
The 17-year-old mother ran away from home with her newborn daughter, Pearl, and drove to the Indian Waters Trailer Park. The abandoned park is backed by a garbage dump and is a mixed bag of good and bad. The mother and daughter slept together in the back seat of the car and in the front seat for 14 years. Until a piercing gunshot, Pearl was alone.
From the bad land filled with gun violence, to the short-term foster care life, and then to the unknown journey to Mexico, Pearl thought she had long been accustomed to a lonely and wandering life, but those fleeting warmth along the way made her realize that she had always longed for someone to be looking for her...
