The Art of Crash Landing A Novel Author:Melissa DeCarlo Broke and knocked up, Mattie Wallace can no longer deny that she really is turning into her mother, a broken alcoholic who never met a bad choice she didn't make. So when she gets news of a possible inheritance left by a grandmother she's never met, Mattie jumps at this one last chance to turn things around. Leaving the Florida Panhandle, she dr... more »ives eight hundred miles to her mother's birthplace-the tiny town of Gandy, Oklahoma, where her mother remains a local mystery. But the girl they describe bears little resemblance to the damaged woman Mattie knew, and before long it becomes clear that something terrible happened to her mother-and it happened here.« less