Producers Steven Siebert and Christian Taylor have optioned the best-selling novel "
Hick," by first-time author Andrea Portes.
The coming-of-age story centers on 13-year-old Luli McMullen, who runs away from her ramshackle Nebraska home after being abandoned by her deadbeat parents and heads to Las Vegas. Along the way, she learns the truth about American rootlessness and discovers both the power and peril of her own sexual curiosity.