Velva Jean Learns to Drive

The  New York Times  bestselling author of  All the Bright Places —soon to be a Netflix film starring Elle Fanning—presents  a coming-of-age debut about ill-fated love during the Great Depression—and what it means to be a woman with ambition. Velva Jean’s mother urged her to “live out there in the great wide world,” and growing up in Appalachia in the years before World War II, Velva Jean dreams of becoming a big-time singer in Nashville. Then she falls in love with Harley Br