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The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America

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The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America

作者:Potts 
出版社:Random House Trade
出版日期:2024-04-30
語言:英文   規格:平裝 / 272頁 / 20.32 x 13.18 x 1.35 cm / 普通級/ 初版
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圖書名稱:The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - An acclaimed journalist tries to understand how she escaped her small town in Arkansas while her brilliant friend could not, and, in the process, illuminates the unemployment, drug abuse, sexism, and evangelicalism killing poor, rural white women all over America.

"[A] clear-eyed and tender debut . . . This book is as much the author’s story as a piece of reportage."--The Wall Street Journal

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.

In this gripping narrative, 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. The Forgotten Girls is a profound, compassionate look at a population in trouble, and a uniquely personal account of the way larger forces, such as inheritance, education, religion, and politics, shape individual lives.

 

作者簡介

Monica Potts is a senior politics reporter for the website FiveThirtyEight. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, and The New Republic, among other publications, and on NPR. She has been a New America fellow and a senior writer with The American Prospect magazine.

 

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  • ISBN:9780525435365
  • 規格:平裝 / 272頁 / 20.32 x 13.18 x 1.35 cm / 普通級 / 初版
  • 出版地:美國
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