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A Diary of Love, Secrets and Growing Up in the 70s
Bloomsbury Publishing
July 2006
192 pages
ISBN: 1596912006
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
A spellbinding and authentic document of American
adolescence.
Set against the backdrop of the deep
South in the 1970s, Miss American Pie is the
unforgettable account of Margaret Sartor�s life from age
twelve to eighteen. A raw document crafted from diaries,
notebooks, and letters, this deeply personal yet universally
appealing story astonishes with its candor. Young Margaret
moves with ease between the seemingly trivial concerns of
hairstyles and boys to more profound questions of faith and
meaning. By turns funny and poignant, heartbreaking and
profound, she tackles all of the decade�s
issues�desegregation, drugs, the sexual revolution, the rise
of feminism, and the spread of charismatic evangelical
Christianity�with humor, frankness, and unexpected
insight.
Miss American Pie reminds us what it
feels like to grow up, offering a true and honest look at a
teenager grappling with the timeless questions of sex,
friendship, God, love, loss, and the meaning of family. The
introduction and epilogue, written by Sartor from an older
perspective, reflect on those turbulent and life-shaping
years, revealing how the girl in the diary turned out after
all, and demonstrating that childhood�both its joys and
traumas�reverberate deeply in our adult lives.
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