Tupelo Hassman
Rory Hendrix is the least likely of Girl Scouts. She hasnâ€™t got a troop or even a badge to call her own.Â  But sheâ€™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 (Disposal of Outgrown Uniforms; The Right Use of Your Body; Finding Your Way When Lost) for tips to get off the Calle:Â  that is, Calle de los Flores, the Reno trailer park where she lives with her mother, Jo, the sweet-faced, hard-luck bartender at the Truck Stop.,Roryâ€™s been told she is â€œthird generation in a line of apparent imbeciles, feeble-minded bastards surely on the road to whoredom.â€ But sheâ€™s determined to prove the County and her own family wrong. Brash, sassy, vulnerable, wise, and terrified, she struggles with her motherâ€™s habit of trusting the wrong men, and the mixed blessing of being too smart for her own good. From diary entries, social workerâ€™s reports, half-recalled memories, story problems, arrest records, family lore, Supreme Court opinions, and her grandmotherâ€™s letters, Rory crafts a devastating collage that shows us her world while she searches for the way out of it. ,Girlchild, is a heart-stopping and original debut.
Fiction,Young Adult,Adult,Adult Fiction,Young Adult,Coming Of Age,Contemporary,Realistic Fiction,Sociology,Abuse,Novels,Social Issues,Poverty
Girlchild