She lives with her sign painter father , although their relationship has been strained since her mother died of pneumonia some years earlier .
15 - year - old Holly Sargis is a teenage girl living in a dead - end town called Fort Dupree .
Holly Sargis lives with Holly Sargis ' sign painter father , although their relationship has been strained since her mother died of pneumonia some years earlier .
15 - year - old Holly Sargis is a teenage girl living in a dead - end town called Fort Dupree .