The main character in Minneapolis author Lorna Landvik's latest book "Oh My Stars" is dealing with a lot of misfortune. Violet Mathers is growing up in rural Kentucky during the Great Depression. She's been abandoned by her mother, mistreated by her father and lost her arm in a factory accident. Violet decides to leave Kentucky and boards a bus bound for San Francisco. But a bus crash along the journey strands her in North Dakota. There Violet blooms among a group of caring midwesterners and her life is changed.