The adventures of Flash Jackson - William Kowalski

“On my very last day of being sixteen years old, I fell through the roof of our barn and broke my leg in two places. I was just in a climbing mood I guess. The kind of mood that can overtake a girl sometimes on a hot July day, thinking that if something glamorous doesn’t happen soon, right that minute, she’d go crazy.”

Meet the unforgettable Haley Bombauer — a truly offbeat and endearing heroine — as she teeters on the brink of womanhood.

Haley, also known as ‘Flash Jackson’, seems doomed to spend the summer in a cast, absolutely bored out of her skull. But in a strange twist of fate, Haley’s ‘imprisonment’ inside her peculiar grandmother’s house deep in the woods of upstate New York becomes the adventure of her life. As Haley struggles to understand herself and make sense of the world she is made of — and maybe pass on to her some of the mysterious and mystical arts that only she knows. As Haley comes to understand just who her grandmother is and what the old woman can teach her, she is transformed from tomboy to extraordinary woman.