Lynette D’Amico reads from her novel "Road Trip"

On this road trip, the past is a boneyard, up ahead is the end of the line, and along the way Myra Stark and Pinkie are driving a 1984 Plymouth Turismo from Minnesota through Wisconsin. The travelers pick up a battered hitchhiker, follow a detour into the darkly comic Stark family history, and veer off track more than once. Road Trip is a narrative of disappointment and failed rescues; about the ghosts that haunt us and the relationships we leave behind.

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Lynette D'Amico worked in publishing and advertising for a decade or longer. Today, she is a former ad writer and a graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. Her work has appeared in The Gettysburg Review, The Ocean State Review and at Brevity and Slag Glass City. Road Trip was a finalist for the Paris Literary Prize and, as part of a collection, for the 2012 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. She is the content editor for the online performance journal HowlRound. Born in Buffalo, New York, she has lived in St. Louis, Minneapolis, and Chicago. She makes her home in Boston, but she has a prairie eye.