Running in the shadows

An article from the NYT on the rise of teenaged runaways over the past few years, as the economy has worsened. It's sad and, for me, recognizable.  One of the things I encountered every now and then when I was going around reading from my first novel, One for Sorrow, after its release a couple of years ago, was the occasional reader who would come up to me afterward to say how much they liked the book but found something about the running away that the narrator, a fifteen year old from...