Synopsis: The bestselling author of Where the Heart Is returns with a heartrending tale of two children in search of a place to call home.
Lutie McFee's history has taught her to avoid attachments...to people, to places, and to almost everything. With her mother long dead and her father long gone to find his fortune in Las Vegas, 15-year-old Lutie lives in the god-forsaken town of Spearfish, South Dakota with her twelve-year-old brother, Fate, and Floy Satterfield, the 300-pound ex-girlfriend of her father.
While Lutie shoplifts for kicks, Fate spends most of his time reading, watching weird TV shows and worrying about global warming and the endangerment of pandas. As if their life is not dismal enough, one day, while shopping in their local Wal-Mart, Floy keels over and the two motherless kids are suddenly faced with the choice of becoming wards of the state or hightailing it out of town in Floy's old Pontiac. Choosing the latter, they head off to Las Vegas in search of a father who has no known address, no phone number and, clearly, no interest in the kids he left behind.
Made in the USA is the alternately heartbreaking and life-affirming story of two gutsy children who must discover how cruel, unfair and frightening the world is before they come to a place they can finally call home.
This edition includes a Reading Group Guide making it a perfect choice for a summer book club!
Thanks to Valerie at Hachette I am giving away 5 copies of this book. I'm planning to review this book in the coming weeks.
Rules:
- Leave a comment on this blog with your email address to receive one entry.
- Follow me on this blog to receive another entry.
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- Blog about this giveaway & I'll add 5 more entries to your total - just leave me a link in my comments field.
- Books will be delivered directly from the publisher so the giveaway is only for residents of the US & Canada. No PO boxes, please.
- Winners will be announced 5/31/2009 - Random Drawing.
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