July 24, 2008, - 2:11 pm
HOprah Watch: Oprah Book Club, Child Sex & Porn Edition
By Debbie Schlussel
One of Oprah’s fave authors, Oprah Book Club authoress Billie Letts, has a “charming” new book out . . . pimping child porn and molestation. And she even has the chutzpah to title it, “Made in the U.S.A.”
Yup, this is the kinda crap Oprah is easily convincing America’s women to read:
Do not judge Letts’ new Made in the U.S.A. (Grand Central, 355 pp., $24.99) by its summery cover illustration of lightning bugs flashing in a twilight sky.
This novel is touted as the moving tale of two children who overcome all odds to find a home – the search for home being a favorite Letts theme.
Instead, the story of 15-year-old Lutie McFee and her brother, Fate, 11, presents us with the death of their caretaker (the ex-girlfriend of their missing father) at the checkout line at Wal-Mart; and rum and Cokes served to Lutie by a child predator, who then gets her to pose for a porn magazine.
Lutie becomes addicted to cocaine and does a porn film, all so she can afford a home for Fate. Did we mention Lutie is raped – not once but twice – brutally beaten and slashed across the face?
Talented authors have long mined toxic home lives for insights into the inhumanity present in too many families.
But Made in the U.S.A. is a despicable example of a writer with a loyal following being inhumane to her characters – and her readers.
This is liberalism… Oprahified – where everything is leveled down to the lowest common denominator – the sewer of our civilization.
NormanF on July 24, 2008 at 2:59 pm