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Girl Child (2000)

by Tupelo Hassman(Favorite Author)

3.51 of 5 Votes: 4

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review 1: To be fair on my one star, I didn't finish it. I trudged through more than half and usually by then I can suck it up and rock out the rest just to justify the time I've already invested. But this was bad! I was so disappointed as it had been on my "list" for a long time and finally was ready to tear through an adorable story about a girl with no chance at a future who finds a Girlscout handbook and begins to accomplish badges on her own and it create a future for her she wouldn't otherwise have. That's how it was described to me in a magazine. But this book 1. doesn't tell it story. It give hints and clues and leave you to decide what it's saying. Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. 2. Is all about how a little girl is sexually abused sorta, another left to the imagina... moretion, not that I want it described in detail but damn, tell me a story! 3. I only say the Girlscout handbook mentioned, I think, twice in the first 2/3 of the book, so it's not about that at all. The idea had the potential to be a great book but unfortunately the author isn't interested in telling you a story. Or this type of writing style is lost on me.
review 2: I loved this book and the main character. I'm glad the author didn't dumb her down just because she was from a trailer park. I identified with her because I was an intelligent child who grew up with little money, but thank God I had a good set of parents and grandparents. I just always felt like I belonged somewhere other than where I was growing up. Like Rory, I was sometimes, too smart for my own good. However I think Rory's smarts Will serve her well in her future. Without her innate intelligence, her future will be much more bleak. Some reviewers complained about the collage feeling of the narrative. I challenge all of them to write of their own childhoods without composing a collage of snippets and snapshots. Aren't they of what our memories are made? I believe that's of what mine's made. I remember those hot summer days when my sisters and I would climb the old cherry tree in our backyard and try to beat the birds to the ripe cherries and I can see the cherry stains on my cotton shirts and shorts and hear my mother's voice as she berated us for making her wash day that much harder, this was in the days before strain sprays and clothes dryers. I can still see the bag of wooden clothes pins my mom kept on the wash line and I can smell how good the clothes and sheets smelled when they came down from the line, no dryer sheets can mimic that smell. These days if you hung the wash out to dry it would smell of air pollution not fresh air. I think fresh air ended with the end of the fifties, That is the only thing most women would miss from the fifties. We don't miss wearing stockings and garter belts and girdles, or those pointy bras, or wearing hats and gloves to church on Sundays. I'm sure most women do not want to return to the days when nurse, secretary, or teacher were the only career choices available to most women. Nor do we want to return to the days when women were barred from management positions, at most businesses. No they really weren't the good old days. Who would want to go back to the days when women were not allowed to wear pants to work or ? Not I. less

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