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Made in the U.S.A.
Made in the U.S.A. | Billie Letts
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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 U.S.A. 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.
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Samplergal
Made in the U.S.A. | Billie Letts
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Pickpick

And just like that, the #readingUSA2019 challenge was completed! #24b4monday #SummersEndReadathon #Nevada #Booked2019 #Addiction

Andrew65 Congratulations 🍾🥂🥳 5y
MicheleinPhilly That‘s impressive! 5y
Clwojick Woohoo! Way to go! 5y
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Leftcoastzen Wow! Way to go!👍 5y
Librarybelle Awesome! Thanks so much for participating! 5y
BarbaraBB Congratulations, good job! So what was the best book or most surprising maybe? 5y
ljuliel Great job ! You stuck with it. 🌟👍🏼🌟. I deflated somewhere along the way. 😮👎🏼😮 5y
Sharpeipup Congratulations! 5y
KarenUK That‘s such an achievement! Awesome job xxxx 5y
BarbaraTheBibliophage Great job! And yay for doubling up! 👊🏻📚♥️ 5y
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Samplergal
Made in the U.S.A. | Billie Letts
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1. Finish 6 books. 2. Read at least 50 hours. 3. Read one ARC. 4. Write the reviews already read. #SummersEndReadathon

Clwojick 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻 Those are some awesome goals! You are gonna crush this! ♥️ 5y
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ReadingEnvy
Made in the U.S.A. | Billie Letts

Trivia teaser: which state in America is the setting for two of the six books on the next Reading Envy Podcast, which @Notafraidofwords and I both selected unbeknownst to the other? (Find out tomorrow! Get ready!)

Tamra 👏🏾 Yay! 7y
saresmoore Ooh, I can‘t wait! @Notafraidofwords is such a lovely human! 7y
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