It`s 1989, & Emma & her best friend Dee head to the USA to make their fortune. But completely inept & virtually unemployable, they discover that they can`t even get a job in Mc Donald`s. Forced to travel from California to New York with only pennies in their pockets, they bounce from scrape to scrape, surviving on their wits & the kindness of strangers. Bad luck & misfortune throw everything their way
- snakes, earthquakes, black magic & incontinent dogs. They even get kidnapped by a sex-crazed midget in a Ferrari. This never happened to Jack Kerouac. A startlingly honest & ridiculously funny book, I Left My Tent in San Francisco tells the miraculous story of how the hapless pair made it back alive to tell the disastrous tale.