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Girlchild - by Tupelo Hassman (Paperback)

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  • 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.
  • About the Author: Tupelo Hassman graduated from Columbia's MFA program.
  • 288 Pages
  • Fiction + Literature Genres, Literary

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About the Book



In this heart-stopping, original debut, Hassman tells the story of young Rory Hendrix, who is determined to get out of the Reno trailer park where she lives with her bartender mother and prove she's not the feeble-minded imbecile she's been labeled.



Book Synopsis



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.



Review Quotes




"A voice as fresh as hers is so rare that at times I caught myself cheering. . . .I'd go anywhere with this writer." --Susannah Meadows, The New York Times

"So fresh, original, and funny you'll be in awe... Tupelo Hassman has created a character you'll never forget. Rory Dawn Hendrix of the Calle has as precocious and endearing a voice as Holden Caulfield of Central Park." --The Boston Globe

"A lyrical and fiercely accomplished first novel...In Hassman's skilled hands, what could have been an unrelenting chronicle of desolation becomes a lovely tribute to the soaring, defiant spirit of a survivor." --People

"Moments of strange beauty enhance our sense of the Calle community....[Hassman] makes Rory's milieu feel universal." --Megan Mayhew Bergman, The New York Times Book Review

"Powerful...Rory transcends her bleak situation through dark humor and unaccountable smarts." --San Francisco Chronicle

"This amazing debut spills over with love, but is still absolutely unflinching and real." --Aimee Bender, author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake




About the Author



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.

Dimensions (Overall): 8.1 Inches (H) x 5.72 Inches (W) x .79 Inches (D)
Weight: .54 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 288
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Sub-Genre: Literary
Publisher: Picador USA
Format: Paperback
Author: Tupelo Hassman
Language: English
Street Date: February 5, 2013
TCIN: 85046503
UPC: 9781250024060
Item Number (DPCI): 247-42-7558
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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