In 'Eat and Get Gas,' thirteen-year-old Evan Hanson navigates the complex currents of family life during the Vietnam War. Feeling overlooked at home, Evan's world is upended when her brother is drafted and her mother takes him to Canada, leaving her with her stern father and special needs brother in Hoquiam, Washington. At her grandmother's cafe and gas station, Evan encounters an array of characters, each bearing their own scars from life and war. From her teasing aunt to her PTSD-afflicted uncle and his draft-dodging protege, Evan is enveloped in a world much bigger than she realized. As she helps in the cafe and uncovers family secrets, Evan forges her own path by taking on responsibilities, all the while wrestling with the absence of her mother and the revelation of a life-altering secret.