- 289 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Rory Hendrix is the least likely of Girl Scouts. She hasn't got a troop or even a badge to call her own. But she'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 (Uniforms, disposing of outgrown; The Right Use of Your Body; Finding Your Way When Lost) for tips to get off the Calle: that is, the Calle de las Flores, 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 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.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- teeth
- hope chest
- boomtown
- roll call
- anthropologize
- jaywalk
- periwinkle
- shirley rose
- the great strain of being
- reno 411
- dirt
- nobody
- single file
- tilt
- feebleminded daughter
- recoil
- babysat
- bandages and how to use them
- trail of the trefoil
- blocks that little girls are made of
- change girl
- trees
- boom
- troop
- the bell
- tip your bartender
- recess
- pinball
- double vision
- a letter
- and interruptions
- wings
- stucco
- boom
- the electric company
- outlier
- flicker
- uncle
- ma bell
- okay bouquet
- shoot
- flicker
- surge
- stall
- green thumb
- cut off
- tattletale
- mirror image
- garbage
- revoice
- the city of words
- scantron
- broke
- a gambling establishment
- hozomeen mountain
- a sock to grow a block
- gloss
- clipped
- the girl scout laws
- birds in flight
- tent city
- hit and run
- finger
- slow learner
- blue collar
- swing
- pierce
- the nurture of your emergency
- do a good turn daily
- proficiency badge: god’s eye
- mayfly
- trigger
- word jumble
- dyslexikx
- spelling bee
- an illustrated book about birds
- shell
- the state
- loser
- partners
- reading comprehension
- sunrise
- a bartender’s guide
- average
- family ties
- the great chains of being
- girl scout hand book
- tour of duty
- word problem
- triangle
- lesson plan
- hypotenoose
- will
- nails, how to drive
- border crossing
- redemption value
- sunset
- calle de las flores
- highlight
- psalms
- starvation ridge
- crushed
- the first and the fifteenth
- right use of your body
- make your request
- free love
- proficiency badge: puberty
- make a wish
- like a diamond in the sky
- help with fractions
- desolation angels
- clipped
- and this too shall pass
- paper dolls
- funeral etiquette
- caution: children
- gifted
- dream
- pretty theft
- sophomore attempt
- ownself
- local dive
- sparks, nv
- last call
- on the road
- parcel post
- a girl scout obeys orders
- savage value
- fire sale
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- A Note About the Author
- Copyright Page