Made in the U.S.A.
by Billie Letts
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Author: Billie LettsEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-05-04
ISBN: 044658245X
Number of pages: 384
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
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Book Review: Billie Letts Does It Again
Summary: 5 Stars
MADE IN THR U.S.A.
Billie Letts
Grand Central Publishing
$13.99-Paperback
ISBN: 978-0-446-58345-2
384 pages
Reviewer: Annie Slessman
When Billie Letts wrote MADE IN THE U.S.A. she created two characters dear to our hearts, a young fifteen year old girl, Lutie, and her eleven year old brother, Fate. She places them in peril when their guardian (the girlfriend of their father) dies during a shopping trip to Wal-Mart. The father has since skipped town for Las Vegas and the children face being placed in a foster home. To avoid being possibly separated, Lutie decides they need to take their former guardian's car and go to Las Vegas to find their father. Lutie has never driven a car before but she is a fast learner and gets them there safely.
In Las Vegas they kids find their father has died (in prison) and they are truly homeless and without funds. Lutie, feeling alone and without resources utilizes every means possible to get a job whether it is legal or not. Fate, a young scholar who loves to spend
his days in the library, makes a few dollars gathering cans and golf balls which he sells. Together they hope to make enough to rent an apartment in an area where Fate can go to a good school. While they struggle to eat and stay away from the law, they obtain help from a mysterious guardian angel. This person leaves them notes directing them to places they can eat free and parking places where they can sleep in the car without being seen.
The ending of the book is a powerful one. They find their guardian angel who again finds a way to help the children find a good home. Letts knows how to keep her readers turning the pages and does not disappoint. This is a great study of the treatment our homeless children receive and the dangers that await them on the streets.
Billie Letts former works include Where the Heart Is, The Honk and Holler Opening Soon and Shoot the Moon.
Summary of Made in the U.S.A.
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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