The Art of Crash Landing: A Novel by Melissa DeCarlo.Harper, 2015. Adult Fiction.
Although Mattie Wallace has grown up in Florida, she finds herself going to her mother's hometown of Gandy, Oklahoma after her mother, an alcoholic who left home after high school, dies. It seems that she has an inheritance from the maternal grandmother she never knew and a world of things to learn about her family and herself. Pregnant and broke, Mattie leaves her sick stepfather, the only father she has ever known, and makes the trip alone. While Mattie meets many people who knew her mother, no one seems to know why the young woman left town thirty-five years ago. It's up to Mattie to make some money (through a job at the local library), keep herself and the baby safe, and to find answers so she will not turn into her unhappy mother. Who knows all the secrets and who will help Mattie discover the past?
Smart mouthed, funny, and impulsive, Mattie is not the role model you'd want a daughter to be, but she will win your heart and make you root for her survival. If your past is a world of hurts, can your future be any different? In this debut novel, East Texas writer and former Oklahoma resident DeCarlo, has a spunky heroine in the most unimaginable and wacky situations. Who else has two dogs both named Winston?
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