Atlas of the Human Heart

In the Bay Area in the 90s, teenage Ariel knows she has to get out in order to save herself. She buys a one-way ticket to China and from there hits the road, spending three years traveling around the world, navigating vast changes of fortune and friendship, and eventually coming back to where she started, forever changed. The perfect book for past or future dropouts and runaways or anyone who has ever needed to be free.