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The following is excerpted from Una Mannion s debut novel, A Crooked Tree , a poignant portrayal of an unmoored childhood giving way to adolescence. Mannion has won numerous prizes for her work including the Hennessy Emerging Poetry Award. Her work has been published in The Irish Times, The Lonely Crowd, and Bare Fiction , a broadsheet of prose and poetry. The night we left Ellen on the road, we were driving north up 252 near where it meets 202 and then crosses the Pennsylvania Turnpike. To the west were open fields, stretches of golden prairie grass and butterfly weed, the final line of sun splintering light through them; to the east, King of Prussia gray industrial sites cast in dusk, cement trucks, cranes, and a maze of highways and expressways. The Blue Route was somewhere over there, too, like an amputated limb, started in 1967 but fourteen years later still unfinished, the pavement ending at a line of overgrown grass and trees where the money had run out. Teenagers learned

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