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Harper
September 2015
On Sale: September 8, 2015
Featuring: Mattie Wallace
432 pages
ISBN: 0062390546
EAN: 9780062390547
Kindle: B00R1R63E2
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Women's Fiction Contemporary
From a bright new talent comes this debut novel about a young woman who travels for the first time to her motherβs hometown, and gets sucked into the mystery that changed her family forever Mattie Wallace has really screwed up this time. Broke and knocked up, sheβs got all her worldly possessions crammed into six giant trash bags, and nowhere to go. Try as she might, Mattie can no longer deny that she really is turning into her mother, a broken alcoholic who never met a bad choice she didnβt make. When Mattie gets news of a possible inheritance left by a grandmother sheβs never met, she jumps at this one last chance to turn things around. Leaving the Florida Panhandle, she drives eight hundred miles to her motherβs birthplaceβthe tiny town of Gandy, Oklahoma. There, she soon learns that her mother remains a local mysteryβa happy, talented teenager who inexplicably skipped town thirty-five years ago with nothing but the clothes on her back. But the girl they describe bears little resemblance to the damaged woman Mattie knew, and before long it becomes clear that something terrible happened to her mother, and it happened here. The harder Mattie digs for answers, the more obstacles she encounters. Giving up, however, isnβt an option. Uncovering what started her motherβs downward spiral might be the only way to stop her own. Hilarious, gripping, and unexpectedly wise, The Art of Crash Landing is a poignant novel from an assured new voice.
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