World Rights to Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.'s THE EL

Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. (enrolled member Mackinac Bands of Chippewa and Ottawa Indians)'s THE EL, a semi-autobiographical novel that takes place on a single day in 1979 Chicago as a group of teenage Royals trek across the city to attend a gathering of fellow gang members in a story that's pitched as half TOMMY ORANGE, half THE WARRIORS, entirely a love letter to a group of friends trying to make their way in a city (and a country) that doesn't want them, to Anna Kaufman at Vintage, by Ron Eckel at CookeMcDermid (world).