Differences Between Novel and Film
In the novel:
- Novalee finds the number 5 very unlucky in the movie and the number 7 unlucky in the book.
- Sister Husband has brown hair in the movie and blue hair in the book.
- Lexie marries Leon Yoder (Ernie the Exterminator was not in the book).
- Forney does return to college until Novalee comes back to confess her lie in the movie but in the book Forney does not return to college; instead he travels around the nation. He eventually settles in Chicago and begins working in a bookstore.
- Forney and Novalee did get married in a Wal-Mart but in the book they do not get married at all.
- Lexie has 5 kids with 4 different men and pregnant with a sixth child but a fifth man.
- In the book, Lexie is obese. She is constantly trying new fad diets and weight loss schemes.
- Benny Goodluck is left out of the film version.
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