Hemingway Tradition (Hardcover, Turtleback School & Library ed.)

We had the top down on our old LeBaron and the sun was beating from a sky that was nothing but blue. It was my mom's turn to drive, so I was stretched out in the passenger seat, watching Saskatchewan slide by, thinking there must be a couple dozen different ways for a guy to kill himself.

Shaw Sebring is sixteen and trying desperately to understand and accept his father's recent suicide. Moving with his mother halfway across the county in an effort to distance themselves from the awful truth, Shaw lands in a new school and finds that the ghost of his father, a best-selling author, has followed him. Determined that he will not follow in his father's footsteps, Shaw tries to chart his own course, until circumstances force him to accept that where -- and who -- we come from has an impact on what we become.