Girlchild

By Tupelo Hassman

Subjects: Mothers and daughters, fiction, Fiction, family life, general, Trailer camps, Dysfunctional families, Fiction, general, Families, Mother-daughter relationship, Trailer parks, Books and reading, Child sexual abuse, Girls, Coming of age, Fiction, Bildungsromans, Mothers and daughters, Girl Scouts

Description: Obsessively following the edicts of the Girl Scouts Handbook in spite of her lack of a troop, young Rory longs to escape the Reno trailer park where she lives with her bartender mother.