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‘Girlchild’ by Tupelo Hassman

In a funny, sparkling debut, abused, gifted, trailer-park child clings to Girl Scout Handbook as a road map to a better life

By Mameve Medwed

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  February 19, 2012

In these postcards from the edge Tupleo Hassman tells the story of Rory Dawn Hendrix, “feebleminded daughter of a feebleminded daughter, herself the product of feebleminded stock.’’(5). Doomed by DNA, Rory comes of age in Calle de las Flores, a seedy Reno trailer park. Fortunately, Rory is smart; books can save her and pave a path out of there. Unfortunately, intelligence is a double-edged sword.

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