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Novalee
Nation heads this first novel. A feisty young woman who is seven
months pregnant when she leaves her Tennessee trailer park with
her boyfriend, she is abandoned outside a Wal-Mart in Oklahoma.
Living on canned goods and sleeping behind the water heater,
Novalee carries her pregnancy to term, and her child becomes known
as the Wal-Mart baby. Novalee eventually gets a job at the
Wal-Mart, and makes a life for herself and her child.
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