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The Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America
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Start date
July 7, 2018
Finish date
July 7, 2018
Why we're reading this
If you were a teenager in the 80s, this book will take you back, even if you didn't experiment with this …more

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Brienne Diebolt-Brown
The subject material is probably off-putting for some, a "Catcher in the Rye" type story of a young girl who explores heterosexuality, homosexuality, guerrilla feminism, prostitution, drugs, all of the things that might be a parent's nightmare. Toward the end, almost as an aside, you find out that she was possibly molested as a child (or not), grew up super poor with a mother who married a few times. It's not the driving force behind the angst-y behavior. And yet, at the end, you leave the book ...more
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