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The forgotten girls a memoir of friendship and lost promise in rural America Cover Image Large Print Book

The forgotten girls [large print] : a memoir of friendship and lost promise in rural America / Monica Potts.

Potts, Monica, (author.).

Summary:

"Growing up gifted and working-class poor in the foothills of the Ozarks, 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 tumultuous family lives and declining town -- broken marriages, alcohol abuse, and shuttered stores and factories. They pored over the giant map in their middle-school classroom, tracing their fingers over the world that awaited them, vowing to escape. In the end, Monica left Clinton for college and fulfilled her dreams, but Darci, along with many in their circle of friends, did not. Years later, working as a journalist covering poverty, Potts discovered what she already intuitively knew about the women in Arkansas: Their life expectancy had dropped steeply -- the sharpest such fall in a century. This decline has been attributed to "deaths of despair" -- suicide, alcoholism, and drug overdoses -- but Potts knew their causes were too complex to identify in a sociological study. She had grown up with these women, and when she saw Darci again, she found that her childhood friend -- addicted to drugs, often homeless, a single mother -- was now on track to becoming a statistic. Potts deftly pinpoints the choices that sent her and Darci on such different paths and then widens the lens to explain why those choices are so limited."-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781638087144
  • ISBN: 1638087148
  • Physical Description: 351 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
  • Edition: Center Point Large Print edition.
  • Publisher: Thorndike, Maine : Center Point Large Print, 2023.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Regular print version previously published by Random House.
Includes author's note with background information.
Formatted Contents Note:
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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Potts, Monica.
Potts, Monica > Friends and associates.
Women journalists > United States > Biography.
Women drug addicts > Arkansas > Clinton.
Rural poor > Arkansas > Clinton > Social conditions.
Poor women > Arkansas > Clinton > Social conditions.
Female friendship > Arkansas > Clinton.
Women's friendships.
Arkansas > Biography.
Genre:
Large print books.
Autobiographies.

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