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Where the Heart Is
By Billie Letts
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Review by Ellen Isaacs
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Novalee Nation, a seventeen year-old pregnant girl from Tennessee, is deserted at a Wal-Mart in Oklahoma when her loser of a boyfriend drives off without her on their way out to California. She ends up staying there, living in the Wal-Mart until she has her child in the store. The book is the story of how she develops relationships with an eclectic group of friends in the town, raises her child, and eventually develops a sense of her own worth.
I found this a pleasant book, and I generally cheered for Novalee to make good decisions and to grow some confidence, but I didn't connect with her story. I found her collection of friends only weakly drawn, so it was difficult to relate to them or understand them. The only real passion this book aroused in me was a hatred of her boyfriend, whose story is told in a few chapters interwoven into Novalee's story. A perfectly good read, but I don't think I'll remember this book very well over time.
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