As Easy As Falling Off the Face of the Earth by Lynne Rae Perkins is a book about catastrophes. Fifteen year old Ry is stranded in the middle of Montana (although initially he doesn't know that) when he gets off the train he's on and it leaves without him. Wandering along the railroad tracks, he stumbles into a town looking disheveled, he only has one shoe (don't ask how he lost the other one), his shirt is bloody because he used it to stop a nosebleed, and he's hungry.
He meets Del, the town's do-gooder. There are other catastrophes going on in Ry's family that readers learn about. Del decides to drive Ry home to Wisconsin. Along the way they meet a variety of people, some friends, some strangers.
My suggestion is to read this book as a road-trip book. Enjoy the escapades and adventures of Ry and Del and the strange characters they meet along the way.
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