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Availability:In StockContributor:Tupelo HassmanPublish date:2013-02-05Pages:288
Language:EnglishPublisher:Picador USAISBN-13:9781250024060ISBN-10:1250024064UPC:9781250024060Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Humorous, Coming of AgeSize:8.10 x 5.72 x 0.79 inchesWeight:0.5401Product ID:SCKZM2ATHZ

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

Rory Hendrix, the least likely of Girl Scouts, hasn't got a troop or a badge to call her own. But she still borrows the Handbook from the elementary school library to pore over its advice, looking for tips to get off the Calle--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 she is one of the "third-generation bastards surely on the road to whoredom," and she's determined to break the cycle. As Rory struggles with her mother's habit of trusting the wrong men, and the mixed blessing of being too smart for her own good, she finds refuge in books and language. From diary entries, social workers' reports, story problems, arrest records, family lore, and her grandmother's letters, Tupelo Hassman's Girlchild crafts a devastating collage that shows us Rory's world while she searches for the way out of it.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Picador USAISBN-13:9781250024060ISBN-10:1250024064UPC:9781250024060Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Humorous, Coming of AgeSize:8.10 x 5.72 x 0.79 inchesWeight:0.5401Product ID:SCKZM2ATHZ

Tupelo Hassman graduated from Columbia's MFA program. Her writing has been published in the Portland Review Literary Journal, Paper Street Press, Tantalum, We Still Like, and Zyzzyva, and by 100 Word Story, Five Chapters.com, and Invisible City Audio Tours.


Publisher: Picador USA

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