Story Behind The Book
This is a story about two young girls and although from different backgrounds,became best friends for life and realized they each have the same dreams, to find a man who truly loves her and to have a best selling book. Joanne was from a poor family with a drunken, abusive father. She had to go to work at the young age of fifteen to help her mother support her four younger siblings. when her youngest sister was in her last year of high school, Joanne leaves home and moves to the city, vowing never to return to her father's house again. Marty, on the other hand, was from a wealthy family but at the age of thirteen, turned rebellious and started experimenting with drugs. In and out of rehab for several years, at the age of seventeen, she decides to run away. Having a friend who obtains a fake id for her, she goes to work in a male strip club. Four years later she realizes her life isn't going the way she expected, so she gets on a plane and travels fifteen hundred miles to start over. Joanne and Marty meet for the first time in Shreveport Louisiana, when Marty goes to work in the same restaurant where Joanne is working. The fun begins when Joanne wins big at the casino, she and Marty go on an adventure that most of us only dream of.
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<strong>Author Jessica Coulter Smith says about "Casino" </strong> <div class="fw-text"> <p><font size="2"><strong>Looking for an enjoyable way to pass the time? Then pick up a copy of Casino ... It will make</strong> <strong>you laugh and cry as you journey with the women through their ups and downs. In some ways, it reminds me a bit of Thelma & Lousie.</strong> </font></p></div>