WATCHING TRAFFIC

Emily has finally finished high school. At last, she thinks, her adult life can begin. But while Lincoln prepares to go backpacking in Australia, and Melissa packs up for university, Emily realizes she has no idea what she wants her new life to look like. Will she end up working forever at Pamela's Country Catering, cutting the crusts off party sandwiches? Will she always be known as the local girl whose mother abandoned her in the worst way possible all those years ago? Spend the rest of her life listening to the distant hum of the highway leading away from the town everyone else
can't wait to leave?

With poetic prose and a keen eye for the quirks and ironies of small-town life, a talented new writer captures a time that is both full of possibility - and
completely terrifying.