Publisher's Synopsis
The New Mexico Whiptail lizard produces offspring without the benefit of sperm. -- Wonderful World of Biology Fact #1Wanda Louise Ledbetter-thirteen, 'white trash,' orphaned, mad, and too smart for her own good -- is eyeballing every man leaving the doctors' entrance of the big hospital in Dallas. Perched on her mama's rusted-out Cadillac, she's been there all afternoon -- ever since her stepfather, Harley, drunk and abusive after her mother's funeral, yelled out the secret nobody was ever supposed to know: Wanda's daddy wasn't her daddy, and not even her dead mama knew his name -- because Wanda was made with donor sperm. So Wanda has grabbed her half-gone grandma and her half-dog Wild Thing and hit the road to find her 'real' daddy. There's brave new trouble ahead, and Brave New Wanda is roaring toward it in her mama's junker Caddy.
