Hick by Andrea Portes is the best literary release of 2007, hands down. No, hands up, raise your hands to the sky and praise tha lah-ord for scratching your literary itch.

Portes nails the pubescent voice of a girl named Luli who decides to leave her horrid, abusive existence in Nebraska for the road, a road leading to Las Vegas. Luli discovers she has something that men want with her maturing body and feels that is going to give her the life she needs.

Along the way she gets protection from a shady motherly type named Glenda.

Dark, funny and naked to the bone honesty make "Hick" the literary classic it will become.

It's one of those books you read, if you're a writer, that will make you seeth with jealousy.

Enjoy the interview.

Segment 1
15:10 minutes, 17.30 MB
Segment 2
8:02 minutes, 11.00 MB
Segment 3
9:38 minutes, 10.90 MB
Segment 4
4:50 minutes, 5.53 MB
Segment 5
5:46 minutes, 6.59 MB

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