The art of crash landing
Subtitle: a novel
By: Melissa DeCarlo
Edition: First HarperLuxe edition.
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 542
ISBN-13: 9780062416858
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Mothers and daughters; Fiction; Family secrets
Description: Mattie Wallace has really screwed up this time. Broke and knocked up, she's got all her worldly possessions crammed into six giant trash bags, and nowhere to go. Try as she might, Mattie can no longer deny that she really is turning into her mother, a broken alcoholic who never met a bad choice she didn't make. When Mattie gets news of a possible inheritance left by a grandmother she's never met, she jumps at this one last chance to turn things around. Leaving the Florida Panhandle, she drives eight hundred miles to her mother's birthplace, the tiny town of Gandy, Oklahoma. There, she soon learns that her mother remains a local mystery, a happy, talented teenager who inexplicably skipped town thirty-five years ago with nothing but the clothes on her back.