My
protagonist, Lettie, a girl of faith and hope, wants to find a place to
call home. Don't we all? Her journey is one that we are all making,
every day, to have comfort and to bring comfort to others.
In
this coming of age novel, Lettie and Bert squeak by in a tiny town on
Cape Cod, one parent an alcoholic and the other absent. After a string
of bad decisions on Lettie’s part, their father ships them to their
barely remembered mother for the summer, where they will learn hard
lessons about themselves, their family, and their future by way of the
Florida swamp. Throughout Lettie keeps her biting humor flowing, her
razor-sharp pen at the ready, and her eye on her quest for a “normal”
life.
Kirsten B. Feldman
Author of No Alligators in Sight
