The Stowaway

The spectacular,true story of a scrappy teenager from New YorkΓÇÖs Lower East Side who stowed away on the most remarkable feat of science and daring of the Jazz AgeThe Stowaway is ΓÇ£a thrilling adventure that captures not only the making of a man but of a nationΓÇ¥ (David Grannbestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon). It was 1928: a time of illicit boozeof Gatsby and Babe Ruthof freewheeling fun. The Great War was over and American optimism was higher than the stock market. What better moment to launch an expedition to Antarcticathe planetΓÇÖs final frontier? Everyone wanted in on the adventure. Rockefellers and Vanderbilts begged to be taken along as mess boysand newspapers across the globe covered the planningΓÇÖs every stage. And thenthe night before the expeditionΓÇÖs flagship set offBilly GawronskiΓÇöa mischievousfirst-generation New York City high schoolerdesperate to escape a dreary future in the family upholstery businessΓÇöjumped into the Hudson River and snuck aboard. Could he get away with it? From the soda shops of New YorkΓÇÖs Lower East Side to the dance halls of sultry Francophone Tahitiall the way to AntarcticaΓÇÖs blinding white and deadly freezeauthor Laurie Gwen Shapiro ΓÇ£narrates this period piece with gustoΓÇ¥ (Los Angeles Times)taking readers on the ΓÇ£novelisticΓÇ¥ (The New Yorker) and unforgettable voyage of a plucky young stowaway who became a Roaring Twenties celebritya mascot for an up-by-your bootstraps era.