Breakout

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Los Angeles! City of tanned shoulders! Smog-spewing, pay-per-viewing, sit-com maker for the world!

Dels put in 17 years there, bouncing among foster homes. Smart, sharp-tongued, a master mimic, shes fed up with her world and with being Del. So shes faked her own death and is leaving both herself and L.A. behinduntil her escape lands her in an all-day traffic jam.
Fast-forward eight years. Its opening night for the one-woman play shes written and is starring ina show called Breakout, about a Los Angeles traffic jam. Wildly funny, she seems to be skewering workaholics, road ragers, pickup artists, and car culture in general. But readers will see what her audience cantthat the show is a portrait of herself, of her hunger for her mother and her terror of rejection, her free-floating identity and yearning for connection.
Flashing between Dels present and future, Breakout gives us a backstage pass into a young playwrights psyche, letting us watch her life being transformed into a art, heartache into comedy, solitude into community, and anger gradually giving way to acceptance.