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The Art Of Crash Landing, September 2015
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The Art Of Crash Landing
Melissa DeCarlo

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 mother’s hometown, and gets sucked into the mystery that changed her family forever

Mattie Wallace has really screwed up this time. Broke and knocked up, she’s 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 didn’t make.

When Mattie gets news of a possible inheritance left by a grandmother she’s never met, she jumps at this one last chance to turn things around. Leaving the Florida Panhandle, she drives eight hundred miles to her mother’s birthplace—the tiny town of Gandy, Oklahoma. There, she soon learns that her mother remains a local mystery—a 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, isn’t an option. Uncovering what started her mother’s 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.

Comments

2 comments posted.

Re: The Art Of Crash Landing

Congratulations on your book!! I have it on my TBR list,
and I can't wait to read it!! After reading your
posting, as well as what it's about, I can certainly
relate to it on a certain level. I really don't know how
you made it through those interviews, but Thank God you
did!! This will make great reading for me this upcoming
Fall. Thank you for writing your book, and hope you
continue.
(Peggy Roberson 8:36am September 10, 2015)

Thank you, Peggy! Yes, those phone calls were very scary, but of
course, very worth the terror! I hope you enjoy the book!
(Melissa DeCarlo 3:01pm September 10, 2015)