What’s it about?

Esther and Wee Jee is a story set in 1974. It follows two kids travelling across the heartland from Ohio to the Las Vegas desert. 

Esther is twelve and fiercely protective of her three-year-old brother, Wee Jee.  Her widowed father, a Vietnam vet, has been drowning his American dream in cards and whiskey. After another morning with few groceries in the house, Esther finds a faded post-card with her grandfather’s address and the keys to his ’65 side-step Chevy pick-up.

With the help of gas-station maps and stolen apples, the two travel through a county at odds with itself in a time of waning innocence.