Garbage Prince

Jed 19 walks out on his former life without destination without explanation and gets on a train He ends up by happenstance in a small eastern town in Finland where he soon comes face to face with the daily rigors of independent life Coping becomes a challenge for him almost to the point of being an obsession Of all the people in town Jed seems to constantly run across the prickly and quickwitted Lulu 17 Gradually without either of them admitting it their relationship changes from bickering picking on each other and a battle of wills to friendship and as can happen finally to love