![]() ![]() The women are there for each other through thick and thin. First is Lexie Coop, her new best girl friend. After all, her life until moving to Sequoyah had been about neglect and abandonment. ![]() Novalee has never gotten over Wily Jack and fears for him the entire book, almost as though she is afraid that he will come and take Americus away from her. Interspersed with their story is that of Wily Jack and how he struggles to make it in the country music industry. The majority of the book focuses on Novalee and Americus and the roots they put down in Sequoyah. On her first day in Sequoyah, she meets three special people who stay with her for the duration of the novel: Sister Hubbard, who becomes her surrogate mother Moses Whitecotton, an elderly black gentleman and photographer who along with his wife Certain acts as her grandfather and Benny Goodluck, a boy who for all practical purposes is her younger brother. Novalee has nowhere to turn to and makes Walmart her home until the baby is born. Wily Jack had promised Novalee a house in California but on the spot decided he could not deal with impending fatherhood and left her for nothing. Novalee Nation is 17 and pregnant when she is abandoned by her boyfriend Wily Jack at a Walmart in Sequoyah, Oklahoma. I recently saw this reviewed on a friend's page (thank you, Deanna) and felt like is was time for a reread. I read Billie Letts' story of Novalee and Americus Nation back in high school when it was featured on Oprah's book club. ![]()
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