Title: By the Blue Light of the Moon
Product review: Billie Letts' "Where the Heart Is" (a/k/a "the Wal-Mart Baby book,") is a giant SuperCenter Wal-Mart of a book. Her latest, "Shoot the Moon" is down a few rungs and struggling - kinda like K-Mart.It coulda been a contender - an unsolved 1972 murder of a mother and disappearance of her young son in fictional DeClare, OK. And, indeed Letts' "whodunnit" here shines its Blue Lite Special on families and the ties that bind. But it doesn't hold together as well as her former forays, not as dead-on characters, not as warm, not as quaintly quirky, not as bustin' out, laughin' out loud funny either. There are two babies at the Center of this new tale - but the Wal-Mart Baby wins the Heart. /TundraVision
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