The Mechanic's Daughter

Synopsis

In 2001, a nineteen-year-old college freshman named Lisa was driving from her campus in North Carolina back home to Tennessee for Thanksgiving when her 1994 Honda Accord blew a head gasket on a rural highway outside of Knoxville. She pulled over, steam billowing from under the hood, and sat on the guardrail in the fading November light, trying not to cry.…