The ghost of Jack Kerouac accompanies Shuttleworth on her way back from her residency at the Jack Kerouac House in Orlando, FL to the scablands of Washington state, meeting friends and interesting characters on the road. The book, featuring artistically rendered images starring a cut-out of Jack Kerouac ("Flat Jack"), is depicted accompanying author Ciara Shuttleworth from her residency at the Jack Kerouac House in Orlando, Florida to the scablands of Washington State. The photos were edited by award-winning filmmaker, artist, and photographer Pamela Theodotou. Ciara Shuttleworth has been published in journals and anthologies, including Alaska Quarterly Review, Confrontation, Hayden's Ferry Review, The New Yorker, The Norton Introduction to Literature 11e, Ploughshares, and The Southern Review. She was The Jack Kerouac Project of Orlando's 51st resident at Jack Kerouac House. Advance Praise: "Ciara Shuttleworth in her 4,500 mile journey creates a Kerouac-esque mosaic alongside her muse, "Flat Jack." How appropriate that her journey begins at the Kerouac House in Orlando where her storytelling spirit communed with that of Ti Jean to set her on a western course to formulate her take on the soul of America as Kerouac himself did more than a half century ago. It's a journey of discovery well worth taking." -- Bob Kealing, author of the book, Kerouac in Florida: Where the Road Ends, and co-founder of the Jack Kerouac Writers in Residence Project of Orlando "With a little imagination, a paper "Flat Jack" becomes Shuttleworth's traveling companion as she journeys across America. Leaving from the Kerouac House in Orlando, Florida, together they visit her childhood home in Nebraska and beyond, visiting with various characters along the way. This book is for anyone who has ever dreamed of taking a road trip with Jack Kerouac; a modern glimpse of what On the Road might mean today...." -- Summer Rodman, , President of the Kerouac Project of OrlandoBlurb