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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
February 2012
On Sale: February 14, 2012
290 pages
ISBN: 0374162573
EAN: 9780374162573
Kindle: B005J4DV9O
Hardcover / e-Book
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Young Adult | Fiction Family Life
Rory Hendrix is the least likely of Girl Scouts. She hasn’t
got a troop or even a badge to call her own. But she’s
checked the Handbook out from the elementary school
library so many times that her name fills all the lines on
the card, and she pores over its surreal advice (Uniforms,
disposing of outgrown; The Right Use of Your Body; Finding
Your Way When Lost) for tips to get off the Calle: that is,
the Calle de las Flores, the Reno trailer park where she
lives with her mother, Jo, the sweet-faced, hard-luck
bartender at the Truck Stop.
Rory’s been told that
she is one of the “third-generation bastards surely on the
road to whoredom.” But she’s determined to prove the county
and her own family wrong. Brash, sassy, vulnerable, wise,
and terrified, she struggles with her mother’s habit of
trusting the wrong men, and the mixed blessing of being too
smart for her own good. From diary entries, social workers’
reports, half-recalled memories, arrest records, family
lore, Supreme Court opinions, and her grandmother’s letters,
Rory crafts a devastating collage that shows us her world
even as she searches for the way out of it.
Tupelo
Hassman’s Girlchild is a heart-stopping and original
debut.
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