The Resource The art of crash landing : a novel, Melissa DeCarlo
The art of crash landing : a novel, Melissa DeCarlo
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- Summary
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- "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. 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. 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. The harder Mattie digs for answers, the more obstacles she encounters. Giving up, however, isn't an option. Uncovering what started her mother's downward spiral might be the only way to stop her own. Hilarious, gripping, and unexpectedly wise, The Art of Crash Landing is a poignant novel from an assured new voice"--
- "A poignant, darkly funny debut novel about a young woman who travels--penniless, pregnant, and homeless--to her deceased mother's small southern hometown, and becomes embroiled in a local mystery: what forced her mother to flee that town thirty-five years previously?"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 405 pages
- Isbn
- 9780062390547
- Link
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- static.harpercollins.com/harperimages/isbn/large/7/9780062390547.jpg
- Label
- The art of crash landing : a novel
- Title
- The art of crash landing
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Melissa DeCarlo
- Subject
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- Family secrets -- Fiction
- trueDomestic fiction
- trueSmall town life -- Oklahoma
- trueFamily secrets
- trueFamily relationships
- trueSelf-discovery in women
- trueInheritance and succession
- Mothers and daughters -- Fiction
- trueOklahoma
- trueLife change events
- Mystery fiction
- trueForgiveness
- Oklahoma -- Fiction
- truePregnant women
- trueMothers and daughters
- Language
- eng
- Summary
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- "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. 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. 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. The harder Mattie digs for answers, the more obstacles she encounters. Giving up, however, isn't an option. Uncovering what started her mother's downward spiral might be the only way to stop her own. Hilarious, gripping, and unexpectedly wise, The Art of Crash Landing is a poignant novel from an assured new voice"--
- "A poignant, darkly funny debut novel about a young woman who travels--penniless, pregnant, and homeless--to her deceased mother's small southern hometown, and becomes embroiled in a local mystery: what forced her mother to flee that town thirty-five years previously?"--
- Summary
- Chasing a possible inheritance from her grandmother, Mattie Wallace, homeless and pregnant, travels to her mother's hometown in Oklahoma, where she tries to reconcile the town's memory of her mother with the broken alcoholic she became and stop her own downward spiral.
- Award
- LibraryReads Favorites, 2015
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10439350
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- DeCarlo, Melissa
- Dewey number
- 813.6
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
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- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Family secrets
- Mothers and daughters
- Oklahoma
- Target audience
- general
- Label
- The art of crash landing : a novel, Melissa DeCarlo
- Link
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- static.harpercollins.com/harperimages/isbn/large/7/9780062390547.jpg
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000054494529
- Dimensions
- 21 cm.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 405 pages
- Isbn
- 9780062390547
- Isbn Type
- (paperback)
- Lccn
- 2015010374
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)898530105
- Label
- The art of crash landing : a novel, Melissa DeCarlo
- Link
-
- static.harpercollins.com/harperimages/isbn/large/7/9780062390547.jpg
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000054494529
- Dimensions
- 21 cm.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 405 pages
- Isbn
- 9780062390547
- Isbn Type
- (paperback)
- Lccn
- 2015010374
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)898530105
Subject
- trueDomestic fiction
- trueFamily relationships
- trueFamily secrets
- Family secrets -- Fiction
- trueForgiveness
- trueInheritance and succession
- trueLife change events
- trueMothers and daughters
- Mothers and daughters -- Fiction
- Mystery fiction
- trueOklahoma
- Oklahoma -- Fiction
- truePregnant women
- trueSelf-discovery in women
- trueSmall town life -- Oklahoma
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