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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.
Grand Central Publishing
June 2008
On Sale: June 19, 2008
Featuring: Lutie McFee; Fate McFee
368 pages
ISBN: 044652901X
EAN: 9780446529013
Hardcover
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Fiction | Contemporary
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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