Heather’s Reviews > Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America > Status Update

“Rigid thinking is a trauma response.”

Name check of Andrea Pitzer regarding concentration camps.

“‘Yeah, but you’re exceptional.’
‘I’d gone from feral to fairly capable…She admired my hustle…. But I had never been an exceptional kid. I wasted a lot of time watching (TV); a solid A-/B+ student with a slightly above average ACT score; I behaved badly at times…. Drank more than the daughter of an alcoholic should; mouthed off to teachers and my parents….’”

“…the stars & bars have come to represent a universal symbol of rebellion in some kind of a low-rent way. With the declining power of unions & the concurrent rise of migrants from KY & WV, Kahn described the shift as ‘the southernization of Ohio’ which is why the hillbilly huckster J.D. Vance can run for senate & beat the guy who represented everything Ohio sided to be.”