The celebration is cut short when Forney's alcoholic sister Mary Elizabeth takes a fall upstairs and Forney is forced to come to her aid. Forney, who is beginning to fall in love with Novalee, throws her an intimate 18th birthday party in the library, consisting of gourmet dishes he's cooked himself. Novalee learns what she needs in order to save her buckeye tree, and takes a walk to Sister Husband's home to ask permission to plant her buckeye on her property, to which Sister agrees.Īs the weeks pass, Novalee becomes good friends with Forney, Sister Husband, and Sister's companion Mr.
Forney comes off as eccentric and standoffish, but agrees to help Novalee as she shows a burgeoning fascination for books and learning. Forney is from a well-bred family but had to drop out of college to take care of his alcoholic sister, the librarian. She takes a walk to the library where she meets Forney Hull, who helps her find books about the buckeye. He is subsequently arrested and sent to jail.Īs Novalee continues to live in Walmart, she watches as the buckeye tree becomes sick. When Willy Jack protests, Jolene, who had committed the theft but is friendly with the police, further accuses him to cover herself. The police find fourteen cartons of stolen cigarettes in the trunk of his car. Upon their departure, they're almost immediately pulled over by the police, who suspect Willy Jack of being responsible for a theft at a nearby convenience store.
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Willy Jack convinces Jolene that he's a musician on his way to Las Vegas who had his wallet and license stolen - she agrees to use her own money to fix up his car, on the condition that he takes her to Vegas with him. He stops at a local dive bar and meets Jolene, the bar owner's teenage daughter. Meanwhile, Willy Jack continues on his way to California, but quickly runs out of money and gas. When the Walmart closes, Novalee initially panics as she is trapped inside of the store, but as it provides her with temporary shelter, takes refuge there. In addition, she also meets Benny Goodluck, a Native American boy who gives Novalee a buckeye tree for good luck. Moses tells Novalee to give her baby a name "that will mean something" and "withstand a lot of bad times," and gives her a photo album.
Novalee also meets Moses Whitecotton, a photographer who shoots portraits at the Walmart. Sister Husband initially "mistakes" Novalee for a girl named Ruth Ann Mott, gives Novalee a Welcome Wagon basket, and invites her to come visit her whenever she likes. With nowhere else to go, Novalee spends the afternoon at the Walmart and meets Sister Thelma Husband, a kind, spunky, and deeply religious older woman who runs the town's Welcome Wagon, and hands out chapters of the Bible to people she meets. When Novalee comes out of the Walmart, she realizes Willy Jack has left her with nothing more than her beach bag and the $5.55 she has in change from the purchase of new sandals. Novalee convinces Willy Jack to stop at a Walmart in Sequoyah, Oklahoma, so she can use the restroom and purchase a pair of sandals, as hers fell through the floor of their beat-up car. Novalee makes Willy Jack place his hand on her stomach so that he can feel the baby's heartbeat - Willy Jack insists he feels nothing, and continues to treat Novalee and her pregnancy with annoyed indifference. At the age of 7, her mother ran off with a baseball umpire named Fred, her best friend in fifth grade was arrested, and a crazy customer at her cafe job cut her from wrist to elbow, which "took seventy-seven stitches to close her up." Meanwhile, Willy Jack is hiding from Novalee his plan to lose a finger at the trainyard so that he can win a cash settlement, like his cousin did, and not have to work again. Novalee is 17, 7 months pregnant, and superstitious about 7’s. This novel opens with Novalee and Willy Jack, her then boyfriend, traveling from Tennessee to California, where Willy Jack claims he was promised by his cousin, J. Above all, the book dramatizes in detail the tribulations of lower-income and foster children in the United States. Where the Heart Is follows the lives of Novalee Nation, Willy Jack Picken, and their daughter Americus Nation for a period of seven years in the 1980s and early 1990s. It was chosen as an Oprah's Book Club selection in December 1998. Where the Heart Is is a 1995 novel by Billie Letts.
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