Girlchild

By Tupelo Hassman

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

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.