Short listed for an Anthony and a Left Coast Crime Award for BEST NOVEL.1976 New Year's Eve, San Francisco. A Firebird transports a crew of glitter kids away from the city. Forget the trunk full of cash and illegal firearms. Forget the disco heist and sea of felonies left in their wake. They are five friends happily rolling down thunder road with no horizon in sight. They are YOUNG AMERICANS.******"A tremendous book -- tough, funny, totally convincing, and even (in places) sweet. It's good enough to make the book's patron saint, David Bowie, proud. Josh Stallings is an original." - Tim Hallinan