Dirty Kids: Chasing Freedom With America's Nomads [Paperback]

An illuminating and memorable twenty-first-century journey. From this angle, Burning Man looks bourgeois. Ted Conover, author ofNewjackandThe Routes of Man

At age twenty-two, writer Chris Urquhart left a life of middle-class comfort to document the lives of these young nomads for a magazine feature. Captivated, she followed them for three more years. In honest prose interspersed with photographs portraying the grimy beauty of nomadic life,Dirty Kidstells the story of how Urquhart lived alongside runaways, crust punks, and dropouts, hippies, Deadheads, and Rainbows in an attempt to belong in their world.

But the road took its toll, and along the way, Urquhart found suffering alongside the freedommental health issues, substance abuse, and fears of violence marred her journey. Despite all that, the warm, welcoming family of travelers and their radically alternative culture of sharing, generosity, and non-capitalistic collaboration forever changed her outlook on life and her understanding of freedom.

A gritty, thrilling portrait of America's underground traveling community. An illuminating and memorable twenty-first-century journey. From this angle, Burning Man looks bourgeois Ted Conover, author ofNewjackandThe Routes of Man

Dirty Kidsbrings readers face-to-face with the bliss of freedom, the terror of loneliness, and the hard but true realities of life on the roadand on the railsin modern day Babylon. Peter Conners, author ofGrowing Up Dead: The Hallucinated Confessions of a Teenage Deadhead

InDirty Kids, Urquhart shows us a seldom-glimpsed slice of America with poetic flair and journalistic objectivity. Ken Ilgunas, author ofTrespassing Across AmericaChris Urquhart's writing has appeared inAdbusters,COLORS,Maisonneuve, theSantiago Times, and