num_pages: 376
description: Novalee Nation heads this first novel. A feisty young woman who is seven months pregnant when she leaves her Tennessee trailer park with her boyfriend, she is abandoned outside a Wal-Mart in Oklahoma. Living on canned goods and sleeping behind the water heater, Novalee carries her pregnancy to term, and her child becomes known as the Wal-Mart baby. Novalee eventually gets a job at the Wal-Mart, and makes a life for herself and her child.
language: English
title: Where the Heart Is
titlecomplete: Where the Heart Is
genres: Realistic Fiction, Chick Lit, Novels, Adult Fiction, Drama, Young Adult, Adult, Romance, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 247091
places: Oklahoma
awards: awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award
publisher: Warner Books