Breakfast with Neruda

"Michael's a great guy with luck so bad it's epic--from a house so decrepit that it's going to be condemned to repeating senior year after a stupid, dangerous prank. Then along comes Shelly, also in mandatory community service. Can two misfits face the future together?"--Page 4 of cover. Leaving his chaotic home to live in a 1982 station wagon, teenaged Michael is performing mandatory community service when he meets Shelly, girl with a past, who may be special enough to unmask Michael's deepest secrets and reveal his immense heart.