num_pages: 404
description: In this spellbinding debut Velva Jean Hart finds true love-and then risks everything to follow her dreams. Set in Appalachia in the years before World War II Velva Jean Learns to Drive is a poignant story of a spirited young girl growing up in the gold-mining and moonshining South. Before she dies Velva Jean's mother urges her to live out there in the great wide world. Velva Jean dreams of becoming a big-time singer in Nashville until she falls in love with Harley Bright a handsome juvenile delinquent turned revival preacher. As their tumultuous love story unfolds Velva Jean must choose between keeping her hard-won home and pursuing her dream of singing in the Grand Ole Opry.
language: English
title: Velva Jean Learns to Drive
publisher: Plume Books