Running Away with Frannie

Sam meets Frannie at a West Virginia truck stop where she is on the verge of being fired from her waitressing job for flushing a potato down the men's room toilet. Meanwhile, Sam is on the run from his family, his latest going-nowhere job, and his stifling relationship with his high school sweetheart. It isn't until Sam finds the eccentric Frannie who has moved forty-eight times in two years and who believes that her own destiny, like that of all the great wanderers in history, will be revealed in the journeys she undertakesthat his restless heart meets its match. But as this pair of young nomads falls in love, they realize that staying together means, at least for a time, staying in one place. And as Sam tries to reconcile his past with the present, he hopes to disprove the prediction his father once made for him: The whole world is divided into runners and chasers. You're either running toward, or you're running away. You've spent your whole life trying to escape. A story of wanderlust, reconciliation, and heartbreak, Running Away with Frannie is about falling in love with someone you can never possesssomebody who holds you heart in one hand and the car keys in the other.