| Girlchild Contributor(s): Hassman, Tupelo (Author) |
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ISBN: 1250024064 ISBN-13: 9781250024060 Publisher: Picador USA OUR PRICE: $17.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Humorous - General - Fiction | Coming Of Age |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.79" H x 5.72" W x 8.1" (0.54 lbs) 288 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Topical - Adolescence/Coming of Age |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 169047 Reading Level: 6.6 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 10.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Hassman, Tupelo: - Tupelo Hassman's debut novel, Girlchild, was the recipient of the American Library Association's Alex Award. Her work has appeared in The Boston Globe, Harper's Bazaar, Imaginary Oklahoma, The Independent, Portland Review, and ZYZZYVA, among other publications. She is the recipient of the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame Silver Pen Award and the Sherwood Anderson Foundation Fiction Award, and is the first American to have won London's Literary Death Match. She earned her MFA at Columbia University. |