Rory Hendrix is the least likely of Girl Scouts. She hasn’t got a troop or even a badge to call her own. She lives in a trailer park 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.
'This first novel is not like anything you or I have ever read ... You can't help loving this novel' Jaimy Gordon, author of Lord of Misrule. 'This amazing debut spills over with love but is still absolutely unflinching and real ... she's really that kind of fresh new voice people talk about' Aimee Bender, author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake. 'Hassman's wildly inventive prose explodes off the page' Heather O'Neill, author of Lullabies for Little Criminals.
Title: Girlchild
Subtitle:
Contributors:
By (author)
Tupelo Hassman
ISBN 13: 9781780871042
ISBN 10: 178087104X
Publisher: Quercus Publishing Plc
Imprint: Quercus Publishing Plc
Publication Date: 1/03/2012
Place of Publication:
London,
United Kingdom
Edition:
BIC Subjects:
Modern fiction
NBS Classification: General & Literary Fiction
Dewey Classification:
813.6
(DC23)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 448
Height: 234mm
Width: 153mm