Where the Heart Is

Billie Letts’s warm-hearted novel opens as seventeen-year-old, pregnant Novalee Nation is abandoned by her boyfriend at a Walmart in small-town Oklahoma. With nowhere to go, she secretly lives in the store and gives birth there, then slowly finds a makeshift family among the eccentric locals who take her in. Over the years that follow, Novalee builds the stable, loving home she never had.