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The forgotten girls a memoir of friendship and lost promise in rural America

"Growing up gifted and poor in small-town Arkansas, Monica and Darci became fast friends. The girls bonded over a shared love of reading and learning, even as they navigated the challenges of their declining town and tumultuous family lives-broken marriages, alcohol abuse, and shuttered stores...

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Main Author: Potts, Monica (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Random House, [2023]
Edition: First edition.
Subjects:
Potts, Monica.
Potts, Monica > Friends and associates.
Women journalists > United States > Biography.
Female friendship > Arkansas > Clinton.
Poor women > Arkansas > Clinton > Social conditions.
Rural poor > Arkansas > Clinton > Social conditions.
Women drug addicts > Arkansas > Clinton.
Arkansas > Biography.
Autobiographies.
Table of Contents:
  • Place
  • Church
  • The School Hill house
  • Boy crazy
  • The rebellion
  • The summer in New York
  • The escape plan
  • Trauma
  • The goodbye
  • Leaving and staying
  • The party house
  • Motherhood
  • The money
  • The Trouble
  • The trailer
  • Moving
  • The downward spiral.

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