Maggie Cassidy

From the bard of the Beat Generation comes a profoundly moving, autobiographical novel of childhood and first love. “A surprisingly simple and appealing tale of a young student’s fumbling search for love among the high school set . . . at his best, [Kerouac] can give you poetic visions of the commonplace.”— The New York Times Book Review “She’d cradle my broken head in her all-healing lap that beat like a heart; my eyes hot would feel the soothe fingertips of cool, the joy, the stroke and barely