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Nov 13, 2009samdog123 rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
16 year old Mattie Gokey longs to go to New York to college, but the responsibilities of her rural farm life and family make it seem like this will never happen. The background of this novel is a famous murder case that actually happened in New York State in 1906 and which was the basis of Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy. Very well written and try Gap Creek for a similar read.