Eleven-year-old Maybelle Lane collects sounds. The crown jewel of her collection is an old recording of her daddy's laugh, saved on an old phone's voicemail. It's the only thing she has of his, and the only thing she knows about him. Until the day she hears his laugh pouring out of the car radio. When he announces he'll be the judge of a singing contest in Nashville, she signs up. Her neighbor Mrs. Boggs offers to drive her in her RV. And a bully of a boy from the trailer park hitches a ride, too. These are not the people May would have chosen to help her, but it turns out they're searching for things as well. And the journey will mold them into the best kind of family--the kind you choose for yourself.
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