Best People in the World

<p>In Paducah Kentucky seventeen-year-old Thomas feels as reined in as the mighty Ohio a river confined by high floodwalls protecting his small Southern hometown. But all boundaries vanish when Thomas experiences first love with Alice his new history teacher a woman eight years his senior--and when he meets Shiloh a misfit vagabond and anarchist who becomes his new role model. Fleeing to rural Vermont this unlikely trio boldly pursues freedom intimacy and seclusion unfettered by commitments and rules. But a life apart from the world does not ensure a life apart from the past--and for one of them the past that emerges will threaten tragedy.</p>