![]() ![]() And it will make you laugh and cry.every step of the way. It will make you believe in the strength of friendship, the goodness of down-to-earth people, and the healing power of love. Where the Heart Is puts a human face on the look-alike trailer parks and malls of America's small towns. Item Height: 1in Author: Billie Letts Features: Reprint Genre: Fiction Topic: Contemporary Women, Small Town & Rural, General, Coming of Age. Through all the touching and surprising adventures that lie ahead, she's going in the right direction. ![]() Novalee may be homeless and jobless, living secretly in a Wal-Mart, but she's beginning to believe she may have a future. Moses Whitecotton, the wise, soft-spoken, elderly black photographer eager to teach Novalee all he knows.Īnd Forney Hull, the eccentric town librarian who hides his secrets - and his feelings - behind his world of books. Suddenly, with all those sevens staring her in the face, she is forced to accept the scary truth: her no-good boyfriend Willy Jack Pickens has left her with empty pockets and empty dreams.īut Novalee is about to discover treasures hidden in Sequoyah - a group of disparate and deeply caring people, among them :īlue-haired Sister Thelma Husband, who hands out advice and photocopied books of the Bible. An hour ago, she was on her way from Tennessee to a new life in Bakersfield, California. ![]() She's seventeen, seven months pregnant, thirty-seven pounds overweight - and now she finds herself stranded at a Wal-Mart in Sequoyah, Oklahoma, holding just $7. Novalee Nation has always been unlucky with sevens. ![]()
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