Don't Fail Me Now Author:Una LaMarche From the author of Like No Other, the novel Entertainment Weekly�calls "One of the most poignant and star-crossed love stories since The Fault in Our Stars":�What if the last hope to save your family is the person who broke it up to begin with? — � — Michelle and her little siblings Cass and Denny are African-American and living on the poverty lin... more »e in urban Baltimore, struggling to keep it together with their mom in jail and only Michelle?s part-time job at the Taco Bell to sustain them.
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Leah and her stepbrother Tim are white and middle class from suburban Maryland, with few worries beyond winning lacrosse games and getting college applications in on time.
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Michelle and Leah only have one thing in common: Buck Devereaux, the biological father who abandoned them when they were little.
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After news trickles back to them that Buck is dying, they make the uneasy decision to drive across country to his hospice in California. Leah hopes for closure; Michelle just wants to give him a piece of her mind.
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Five people in a failing, old station wagon, living off free samples at food courts across America, and the most pressing question on Michelle?s mind is: Who will break down first--herself or the car? All the signs tell her they won?t make it. But Michelle has heard that her whole life, and it?s never stopped her before....
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Una LaMarche triumphs once again with this rare and compassionate look at how racial and social privledge affects one family in crisis in both subtle and astonishing ways.« less