Not sure why, but this one always appealed to me. Something about the idea of surviving in a Walmart...just intrigues me.

on Wednesday, January 21, 2004 I wrote:

Bought this from Ebay. Arrived today 21/01/04

I really loved this book.It was very hard for me to release it,but i managed.I have been reading English for about 1 year now, But I only read true crime. While reading this book,i realized it's not good to only read True crime, which are quite depressing books most of the time,but change genre sometimes.This book made me laugh,cry but most of all, made me think! (I gave it a 9 out of 10)

A quick re-read for an SRC task.

A very sweet story about a teenager discarded by those who should care for her (parents, boyfriend who is the father of her baby, etc). Instead, Novalee makes a family for herself out of the misfits in a small Oklahoma town. The setting feels very nailed into the Oklahoma landscape in a way that The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend does not. I originally picked this up in undergrad because the hook - pregnant Novalee somehow manages to live inside the Wal-Mart where she is abandoned by said awful boyfriend - caught my attention and I was looking for an escape from MCATs and biochem exams. A good summer read if you're starting to look for beach reads.