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The bestselling writer of WHERE THE Center IS results with a heartrending story of two children in search of a destination to call home.
Lutie McFee's history has taught her to avoid attachments...to the people, to places, also to almost anything. With her mother long dead and her father over to find his fortune in Las Vegas, 15-year-old Lutie lives in the god-forsaken town of Spearfish, South Dakota with her twelve-year-old brother, Fate, and Floy Satterfield, the 300-pound ex-girlfriend of her father. While Lutie shoplifts for kicks, Fate spends almost all of his time reading, watching weird TV shows and worrying about global warming and the endangerment of pandas. As if their life is not dismal enough, one day, while shopping in their local Wal-Mart, Floy keels over and the two motherless kids are suddenly faced with the choice of becoming wards of the state or hightailing it out of town in Floy's old Pontiac. Choosing the latter, they head off to Las Vegas in search of a father who has no known address, no contact number and, clearly, no interest in the youngsters he left out.
MADE WITHIN THE U.S.A. is the alternately heartbreaking and life-affirming story of two gutsy children who must discover how cruel, unfair and frightening the earth is before they come to a location they can finally call home.
