Best Selling Author, Billie Letts,
Delivers Another Great Read

 

by: Bobby McDonald

 

Are you looking for a great summertime read? Something you can "kick back" and get lost in the drama of life, that is much, more involved than your own? Well, look no further than Billie Letts' Made in the U.S.A.!Mad

You remember Tulsa, Oklahoma's Bille Letts from her previous books of Where the Heart Is, The Honk and Holler Opening Soon, and Shoot the Moon. Letts is one of America's best-loved storytellers and she delivers in "full force" with her Made in the U.S.A., when she brings to life fifteen year old, Lutie McFee and her younger brother, Fate. History has taught Lutie to avoid attachments...to people, places, and the landscape. Her mother has died years ago, and her father has left the family to seek his fortune in Las Vegas. Lutie and Fate have been left in the "god forsaken" town of Spearfish, South Dakota, with Floy Satterwhite, their father's once "live-in" girlfriend. Things aren't the best living with Floy, in her rural mobile home, on the outskirts of town, but things quickly become critical when Floy suddenly dies in the third check-out isle of the local Wal-mart.

 

 

Lutie manufactures a tale of a non-existant aunt, to "stave off" the police, until she can get some clothes packed, and embark on a journey to find her father. With Fate, her eleven year old brother, as a co-pilot, Lutie learns how to drive Floy's old Pontiac and heads for Vegas. If things aren't dismal enough, there is no known address for her father in Vegas and no phone number to contact him. Join Lutie, Fate, and the world on a journey to search for an absentee dad, that is like the proverbial "searching for a needle in a haystack!"

You'll enjoy the trip and you're certain to find that your own problems are minor, compared to the encounters of Lutie!!!

 

Made in the U.S.A. will take you on a journey of a lifetime and leave you in awe of the tenacity of a child, on a mission!

 

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