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Where similar plot lines have spelled doom for so many other authors-country music and the business of making it needing no help when it comes to forced sentimentality and cornpone clichés-Supplee succeeds. This may be a novel built around the country-music dreams of a small town girl, and it may be blurbed by Miss Dolly Parton herself (“a wonderful story about dreams and determination that reminds us all to squeeze the most out of every single day”), but it’s an original. With Somebody Everybody Listens To, Supplee continues to hit the mark. Her only asset is her voice, its rich timbre, a sound as “pure as the mountain air” that stuns almost everyone who hears it.Ī Tennessee native, Supplee is the author of two previous novels, When Irish Guys Are Smiling and Artichoke’s Heart, which was praised by both Booklist and School Library Journal critics for its light touch and quiet charm. Setting out for Nashville in her great-aunt Goggy’s 1987 Chevrolet Caprice Classic, a car merely on loan for the summer, Retta has little money and little idea of where she’ll spend the night. Nineteen years old and raised in small-town Starling, Tennessee-about two and a half hours outside Nashville-she’s desperate to “get on with my real life”-the life she’s been “staring out the window and daydreaming about all through high school.” The heroine of Suzanne Supplee’s new novel, Somebody Everybody Listens To, Retta has plans-big ones: Retta Lee Jones wants to make it in country music. with the main characters Eliza (an American girl who goes to Australia) and Billie (an Australian girl who goes to America).It’s graduation day, and there’s little that Retta Lee Jones will miss about Starling High School. Set in Melbourne, Australia and Washington, D.C.

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