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Luttie McFee's history has taught her to avoid attachments...to people, to places, and to almost everything. With her mother long dead and her father long gone to find his fortune in Las Vegas, 15-year-old Luttie lives in the god-forsaken town of Yankton, South Dakota with her nine-year-old brother, Fate, and Floy Satterfield, the 300-pound ex-girlfriend of her father. While Lutie shoplifts for kicks, Fate spends most 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 phone number and, clearly, no interest in the kids he left behind.
MADE IN THE USA is the alternately heartbreaking and life-affirming story of two gutsy children who must discover how cruel, unfair and frightening the world is before they come to a place they can finally call home.
In a second Letts title where a pivotal event occurs at a Wal-Mart (the first was the author's bestseller Where the Heart Is), two long-neglected kids have to fend for themselves—and quickly. After their father's ex-girlfriend, Floy, who is their guardian, drops dead at the chain's Spearfish, S.D., megastore, 15-year-old Lutie McFee persuades her 11-year-old brother, Fate, to take off in Floy's Pontiac to their long-gone dad's last known address, a fleabag hotel in Las Vegas. There, they discover discouraging secrets about their father's whereabouts. Lutie gets fake working papers and a string of dead-end jobs. But with the threat of foster care looming, Lutie and trivia-mad Fate are soon at the mercy of child predators. Letts (whose son Tracy won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama) manages this potentially maudlin or lurid material with a frank lyricism, delivering a heartbreaking tale about love, loss and survival that will stick with the reader long after the last page is turned. (June)
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Deborah Hanson
reviewed Made in the U.S.A. on May 31, 2017
Made in the U.S.A.
"Made in the USA" is a story of how two children who need a family find a home in an unlikely place. Fifteen-year-old Lutie and eleven-year-old Fate live in South Dakota with their father's ex-girlfriend, Floy. Their mother had died when they were young, and their alcoholic father had skipped town, heading for Las Vegas. Floy has a heart attack and dies, leaving the kids without a family. They don't want to be sent into the state foster care system, so they head for Vegas in Floy's old car to look for their father with underage Lutie behind the wheel.
There are predators on the lookout for homeless kids, and Lutie makes some bad decisions. A man with a good heart helps them, and brings them to stay with his large extended family. Lutie and Fate see that home is the place where you are loved.
I've read newspaper reports about kids that have been homeless or living in cars, and Lutie's and Fate's experiences seem very real. The story drew me in more than I expected, although the ending seemed almost too wonderful to be believable. 3.5 stars
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