Where the Heart Is- Billie Letts

Title: Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts

Jacket Summary:
Novalee Nation has always been unlucky with sevens. She's seventeen, seven months pregnant, thirty seven pounds overweight- and now she finds herself stranded at a Wal*Mart in Sequoyah, Oklahoma, holding just $7.77 in change. An hour ago, she was on her way from Tennessee to a new life in Bakersfield, California. Suddenly, with all those sevens stairing her in the face, she is forced to accept the scary truth: her no-good boyfriend Willy Jack Pickens has left her with empty pockets and empty dreams.
But Novalee is about to discover treasures hidden in Sequoyah--a group of disparate and deeply caring people, among them blue-haired Sister Thelma Husband, who hands out advice and photocopied books of the Bible..Moses Whitecotton, the wise, soft-spoken, elderly black photographer eager to teach Novalee all he knows..and Forney Hull, the eccentric town librarian who hides his secrets--and his feelings--behind his world of books.
Nocalee may be homeless and jobless, living secretly in a Wal*Mart, but she's beginning to believe she may have a future. Through all the touching and suprising adventures that lie ahead, she's going in the right direction.


My opinion

This was an amazing book. I really did not expect much from it at first but it sucked me in. I remember there being a big deal about it when I was younger but I was not really paying attention to books back then. It was a quick read too. I was left crying during several parts. If you are in the mood for a feel good tale this is definatly the book to pick up.

RATING
4.5 out of 5
TIME?
Three days