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The novel opens with seventeen-year-old Novalee Nation, and her boyfriend Willy Jack, traveling from Tennessee to California, where Willy Jack claims he was promised by his cousin, J. Paul, a job working at a trainyard. Novalee is seven months pregnant, and superstitious about sevens after a series of misfortunes over the course of her life: at ...
- Billie Letts
- 1995
Becoming alone without support Novalee continues to believe in bad luck, but Thelma takes back Novalee to her house, where they live a full life. Novalee’s life is returning to normal; she plants her tree near Thelma’s house and good luck is slowly returning to her, and her daughter Americus has become much attached to Forney, because she ...
- Billie Letts
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On the drive from their current home in Tennessee to Bakersfield, California, where they are planning on moving, Willie Jack abandons Novalee in the small town of Sequoyah, Oklahoma. With no food and very little money, Novalee ends up secretly living in the town's Walmart.
The main character of the story begins as an innocent young woman, abandoned by her boyfriend. Without money, food or shelter, Novalee decides to live at the Walmart until the baby is born, when ...
Novalee becomes a loyal Wal-Mart employee; her friend Lexie Coop is a nurse's assistant; Moses Whitecotton is a photographer who takes children's portraits at Wal-Mart; and Novalee's neighbor, Mr ...
Novalee Nation is the main protagonist in Where The Heart Is and the mother of Americus Nation. She was played by Natalie Portman. A seventeen years old and seven months pregnant name Novalee Nation sets off on a road trip from Tennessee to California with her boyfriend, Willy Jack Pickens...
Box office. $40 million. Where the Heart Is is a 2000 American romantic drama film directed by Matt Williams and starring Natalie Portman, Stockard Channing, Ashley Judd, and Joan Cusack with supporting roles by James Frain, Dylan Bruno, Keith David, and Sally Field. The screenplay, written by Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel, is based on the ...
