Jalopy by Wes Verde
New Jersey, 1928.
All her life, Etta Wozniak has toiled on her family’s
small farm, located on the outskirts of a lake resort town. After
losing her mother and siblings to one misfortune or another, life has
fallen into a rut of drudgery and predictability. That is, until the
day she discovers something in an unlikely place; an old car.
Energized by the prospects of a world beyond the one she knows, she
decides to make this her last summer on the farm. However, disaster
is not through with Etta yet, and there will be consequences for her
upcoming departure.
Art Adams, a recent college man, arrives in town for a
family reunion. After years of moving from one city to another and
avoiding conflict whenever it tries to find him, he becomes enamored
with the lake. However, there is another reason for Art’s visit. He
is to marry a woman he has never met before; an arrangement that was
made on his behalf and without his knowledge. More comfortable around
numbers and machines than people, Art is reluctant to confront his
parents on the matter. But if he decides to do nothing, he risks
losing who and what he has come to love.
In a small town of farmers and firemen, musicians and
moonshiners, bossy parents and barn parties, two people will come to
understand what they must give up in order to have the chance to
build something new.
