In MADE IN THE U.S.A., Lutie McFee's history has taught her to avoid attachments...to people, to places, and to almost everything.

With her mother long dead and her father long gone to find his fortune in Las Vegas, 15-year-old Lutie lives in the god-forsaken town of Spearfish, South Dakota with her twelve-year-old brother, Fate, and her father’s ex-girlfriend, Floy.

One day, while shopping at Wal-Mart, Floy keels over and the two motherless kids are faced with the choice of becoming wards of the state or high-tailing it out of town in Floy's old Pontiac.

Choosing the latter, they head off to Las Vegas in search of a father who has no known address, no phone number and, clearly, no interest in the kids he left behind.

Billie Letts, the bestselling author of Where The Heart Is, takes listeners on an unforgettable journey through the best and worst of America's heartland as she tells a story of two abandoned children desperately searching for people to call family and a place to call home.