Hilarious, gripping, and unexpectedly wise, The Art of Crash Landing is a poignant novel from an assured new voice. Uncovering what started her mother's downward spiral might be the only way to stop her own. The harder Mattie digs for answers, the more obstacles she encounters. But the girl they describe bears little resemblance to the damaged woman Mattie knew, and before long it becomes clear that something terrible happened to her mother, and it happened here. 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. Leaving the Florida Panhandle, she drives eight hundred miles to her mother's birthplace-the tiny town of Gandy, Oklahoma. With a baby on the way and no money, Mattie Wallace journeys to her. 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. New York Times bestselling author Caroline Leavitt called this listen dazzling. 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. Broke and knocked up, she's got all her worldly possessions crammed into six giant trash bags, and nowhere to go. Mattie Wallace has really screwed up this time. Uncovering what started her mother’s downward spiral might be the only way to stop her own.From a bright new talent comes this debut novel about a young woman who travels for the first time to her mother's hometown, and gets sucked into the mystery that changed her family forever
The deeper Mattie digs for answers, the more precarious her situation becomes. But the girl they describe bears little resemblance to the damaged woman Mattie knew, and before long it becomes clear that something terrible happened to her mother.
Leaving the Florida Panhandle, she drives eight hundred miles to her mother’s birthplace-the tiny town of Gandy, Oklahoma. 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. Try as she might, she really is turning into her late mother, a broken alcoholic who never met a bad choice she didn’t make. Hilarious, gripping, and unexpectedly wise, The Art of Crash Landing is a poignant novel from an assured new voice.īroke and knocked up, Mattie Wallace has got all her worldly possessions crammed into six giant trash bags and nowhere to go.
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