Alecia Batson

A series of diverse short films bound together by the theme that human life, like the path of running water, can be suddenly and unpredictably bent. Ten stories across three feature-length volumes.

Novalee Nation is a 17-year-old Tennessee transient who has to grow up in a hurry when she's left pregnant and abandoned by her boyfriend on a roadside in Sequoyah, Okla., and takes refuge in the friendly aisles of Wal-Mart. In short order, some eccentric, kindly strangers "adopt" Novalee and her infant daughter, helping them buck the odds and build a new life.

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