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ISBN:	0374162573 (ISBN13: 9780374162573)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	ALA Alex Award (2013), The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Nominee (2012)

Girlchild

Tupelo Hassman

Hardcover | Pages: 275 pages

Rating: 3.53 | 5670 Users | 1006 Reviews

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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 (Disposal of Outgrown Uniforms; The Right Use of Your Body; Finding Your Way When Lost) for tips to get off the Calle:  that is, Calle de los 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 she is “third generation in a line of apparent imbeciles, feeble-minded 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 worker’s reports, half-recalled memories, story problems, arrest records, family lore, Supreme Court opinions, and her grandmother’s letters, Rory crafts a devastating collage that shows us her world while she searches for the way out of it. Girlchild is a heart-stopping and original debut.

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Title	:	Girlchild
Author	:	Tupelo Hassman
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 275 pages
Published	:	February 14th 2012 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Categories	:	Fiction. Young Adult. Adult. Adult Fiction. Contemporary. Coming Of Age

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Ratings: 3.53 From 5670 Users | 1006 Reviews

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I'm still kinda unsure what to rate this but I'll just give it four stars for now.I think the story and the message is good and the author successfully managed to capture the gritty reality of certain areas in America or the lives of certain individuals.However, despite the grittiness Hassman still managed to reveal the beauty behind this reality and how hard these people work to better their environment and make something better for themselves.Also,I liked how the stereotype of people in

"Red Necks" "Trailer Trash" "White Trash" "feebleminded" "low class"Hassman's debut novel is an unflinching look at an underclass of undesirables that society prefers to think about only when making them the fodder of jokes and bad television sit-coms.Through prose that is engaging and direct, Hassman lays bare the inner mind of a young girl Rory, growing up trying to make sense of her own dignity and self-worth in a place that society has deemed worthless and hopeless. Hassman has the ability

Most narrators that steal readers hearts dont come from trailer parks, but Rory Dawn, or RD, Hendrix of the Calle de las Flores trailer park on the outskirts of Reno, is a character that is to damaged and yet beautiful to be forgotten. Tupelo Hassmans debut novel Girlchild is a true work of art. While it deals with the more undesirable elements of society, and yes, there are many passages that are difficult to read, it is also a piercing look into the bonds of love between a mother and daughter,

This book was ok. Very interesting writing style. I think I've had an overload of books with child abuse in them. Didn't make enough of an impression on me to give it more than three stars.

3.5 stars. An excellent, skilful and compassionate read full of love for its trailer park characters who live just north of Reno and just south of nowhere. Where the men hunt and trap everything from birds to stray hubcaps to small girls, using slingshots, shotguns, and the rustle of candy wrappers.Hassman uses all kinds of types of writing from Social Services reports on the family, revised pages from the Girl Scout Handbook (the main character is in a troop of one), school exercises (a reading

Rory lives at The Calle de los Flores, a Reno Trailer park with her mother. While Rory knows what people think of her family and her future options or lack there of, she still dreams. For Rory part of that dream is being a girl scout. She's read the Handbook guide backwords and forwards since elementary. Girlchild follows Rory through her adolescent years. Hassman's writing and Rory captured my heart. There's a beauty and honesty to both that I loved. Hassman's style has a beauitful rhythmic

Authentically-told story of a resilient "girlchild" who lives at the unfortunate confluence of multiple disadvantages that have afflicted her family for generations: poverty, parental neglect, sexual abuse, and the general lack of a healthy environment for children. The girlchild, Rory D., takes everything in stride as being just the matter-of-fact stuff of her life -- a narrative stance that rings true for children in even the most dire circumstances. I was disappointed that near the end of the