New Year’s Eve brings hope for new beginnings and promises for a better year. Unfortunately, for the characters in Todd Strasser’s Can’t Get There from Here, all it means is another hard year on the dangerous streets of New York City. This young adult realistic fiction novel portrays the life of eight teenagers fighting for survival in the big city. This “asphalt tribe” learns that one doesn’t need to be related in order to be a family.
The story is told through the main character Maybe, a 15 year old homeless girl. Maybe comes from a home with an alcoholic and abusive mother with four other children. She was the oldest child, and because her mother drank up their food money, she kicked her out. Maybe had a skin condition that she described