Don't see the movie without reading the book first Stockard Channing's performance is the only one worthwhile and believable.Ī great book for older teen girls on up. The book is unforgettable, and hopefully not overshadowed by its inferior movie. Biography Letts was born as Billie Dean Gipson 1 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the daughter of Virginia M. She was a professor at Southeastern Oklahoma State University. She learns a lot about the good in other people, and makes some lasting relationships with others. Billie Dean Letts (ne Gipson August 2, 2014) was an American novelist and educator. The book chronicles Novalee's journey through life with a child, as she is befriended by the local welcome wagon lady an d meets others who help her along the way. She befriends a local (male) librarian, who eventually helps her give birth to her baby, Americus, inside the Wal-Mart. She sleeps in items from the sporting goods department, eats some food here and there, and reads books and magazines overnight. She has no money and nowhere to go, so she decides to hide and live in the Wal-Mart. Letts's determinedly optimistic novel portrays a world where all races coexist harmoniously, and where the splintery realities of American rural lifepoverty, teen pregnancy, single motherhood, homelessness, child sexual abuseare palatably. In it, a young Novalee Nation (no symbolism there, huh?) is dumped, eight months pregnant, at a Wal-Mart by her loser boyfriend. Grand Central Publishing, 7. A debut novel whose rose-colored glasses yield a happy-go- lucky portrait of the down-home lives of uneducated poor folks in Sequoyah, Oklahoma. The clever writing and chatty, down-home style make the book enjoyable. It reads well on so many levels-from the literal to the literate. This book is absolutely one of the best books of the last twenty years.
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