And he and Ernie will have to do chores, like picking peas and scooping dog poop.

Then, he breaks the model truck that’s one of the only things Grandma still has of his deceased uncle. Next, there’s no Internet, so the questions he keeps track of in his notebook (over 400 so far) will have to go un-Googled. 9-12)Įleven-year-old Brooklynite Genie has “worry issues,” so when he and his older brother, Ernie, are sent to Virginia to spend a month with their estranged grandparents while their parents “try to figure it all out,” he goes into overdrive.įirst, he discovers that Grandpop is blind. Most of the people Heidi meets on her trip gradually take on fullness and depth, but this was never intended to be literal or realistic.

Some of the details, such as Heidi’s lucky streak, are not terribly credible, but the heart of the search for home and history is one that readers will find compelling. Determined to investigate the past, Heidi follows a few convenient clues to lead her on a cross-country bus journey from Reno, Nevada, to Liberty, New York. Heidi is homeschooled by Bernadette and finds her unusual life to be satisfactory except for curiosity about her mother’s past, as evidenced by “soof,” her favorite of Mama’s 23 words that also function as chapter titles. and Heidi without leaving her house, Dette is unable to do anything like normal living. Piling on the difficulties, Bernadette is agoraphobic and though managing to reach out to So B. It, but it’s really neighbor Bernadette who raises her. She is assisted by strangers she meets on the way, and all the while she ponders the nature of truth, whether it is always knowable, and whether it is always worth knowing.Resilient Heidi It is the daughter of mentally deficient So B. She travels alone by bus from Reno, Nevada to Liberty, New York to visit the group home in the photographs and probe its tight-lipped manager for answers. Before stumbling upon an old disposable camera, Heidi has no information of her family or origin other than that her mother's 23-word vocabulary includes the word 'soof,' which she assumes holds some meaning she longs to uncover. She is taken care of by her agoraphobic next-door neighbor, Bernadette, at whose door the two appeared when Heidi was about a week old. Heidi DeMuth ( Talitha Bateman) is a twelve-year-old girl with a mentally disabled mother, but who is otherwise extremely lucky. It was released in April 2017 by Good Deed Entertainment. The film stars Talitha Bateman, Jessie Collins, Alfre Woodard, John Heard, Jacinda Barrett, Dash Mihok, and Cloris Leachman. It is a 2016 American drama film directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal and written by Garry Williams, based on the 2004 novel of same name by Sarah Weeks.

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