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During a time when the stereotype of the welfare abusers is running rampant, we see that is stupid because even with welfare, life is hard and lean. I thought this was such a sad read, and so well written I literally couldn't put it down. It's not going to be for everyone. The story is written almost like a diary, with the time-frame and memories jumping all over the place without a lot of hints about where you are currently at in Rory Dawn's life.

But I absolutely loved it, the story was completely captivating. I bought this book based on Fresh Air's book critic Maureen Corrigan's glowing review.

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Today, the book made her top 10 list of Let me say two things: I continued to hope it would get better, but my hope lagged as the book became more and more focused on the severe sexual abuse of the protagonist. If I want to read a redacted copy of severe childhood abuse I'll pick up a police report. I could not understand the point of this I bought this book based on Fresh Air's book critic Maureen Corrigan's glowing review.

I could not understand the point of this novel.

Perhaps it all comes together in the end, but I doubt I'll be able to suffer along with the Girl Child long enough to know. View all 14 comments. Mar 03, Kelly rated it it was ok Shelves: The disjointed narrative, made up of flashbacks, legal documents, court proceedings, and bits of the present, didn't work for me in this book because it never allowed Rory to have a voice. And while the fact she doesn't have a voice makes sense in the story, I couldn't connect with her for a long time and couldn't put together the pieces of why she was so broken, hurt, and silenced.

I found the Girl Scout story line thinly developed until the end when it suddenly had a lot more page time. That sa The disjointed narrative, made up of flashbacks, legal documents, court proceedings, and bits of the present, didn't work for me in this book because it never allowed Rory to have a voice. That said, the ending was fantastic. Rory got what she deserved and did so in a way that felt redeeming and almost hopeful. I just wish more of Rory would have come through sooner in the story so the payoff would have made me cheer a little harder and I would have rooted for her a little more throughout.

As it was, there were too many secondary, unimportant threads running through to really allow her story to work for me.

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It tried a little too hard to be literary and sacrificed other elements because of that. It ultimately wasn't that literary, either. The setting in a trailer park was unique and a well-executed setting that didn't come off as convenient nor contrived which it could have easily done. Mar 18, Kara rated it liked it. One of my clients was 13 years old.

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She lived in a trailer park. She was molested by several of the men there. She had three older brothers. During the year that I knew her, her mother died, one of her brothers was also placed on probation, and another brother was assigned to a long-term stay at a regional youth detention center. When I visited her in her trailer, roaches -- of all sizes -- would climb my clothe True story: When I visited her in her trailer, roaches -- of all sizes -- would climb my clothes and crawl into my purse.

I do not know what became of this young lady.

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Her IQ was almost qualified her as mentally disabled. Her mother called me shortly before she died, crying because she had no money for Christmas gifts for her family. I kept looking for this girl in girlchild -- which tells a very similar story, but I couldn't find her.

The conditions and life the child I knew faced were horrifying, grimmer than anything I've ever experienced. Girlchild's collage-like writing style a math problem here, a social worker's report there, excerpts from the Girl Scout handbook, some personal narrative, a letter made for a very choppy read. Time and time again I found myself going back and rereading sentences and trying to figure out what happened. But maybe that's the point.

When you live in a trailer park, when you're molested, when your future often seems hopeless -- maybe your story is a patchworked jumble of disorganized thoughts and moments. This was a very hard read, and it was definitely influenced by the personal bias I brought to the story. Hassman's portrayal of trailer park life is very accurate.

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Perhaps it's the glimmer of hope she offers that I had a harder problem reconciling personally. Aug 10, Uwe Hook rated it really liked it. Girlchild is a novel that is unlike almost anything else I've ever read. It is like opening the pages of a young girl's diary and finding the most beautiful poetry. It's funny, tragic, hopeful, devastatingly sad, naive and wise and ultimately glorious.

Rory Hendrix lives in poverty with her single mother in a single wide trailer in the desert of Nevada. She has everything working against her but she always seems to find the good in life anyway. Her story will pull you in and make you want to kno Girlchild is a novel that is unlike almost anything else I've ever read. Her story will pull you in and make you want to know this child and to save her, but then you realize she is saving herself because it's what she has to do in order to survive.

Tupelo Hassman's writing is truly radiant in this novel. She goes back and forth between narrative by Rory to strange word problems describing the most unimaginable situations to just bits of paragraphs showing through blacked out lines on the page. All of it fits perfectly to show the reader who Rory Dawn is and to make us feel what she is feeling. It is told in single to 3 page length chapters which keeps the novel moving at a very fast pace.

Dec 05, Doret rated it it was amazing. While Rory knows what people think of her family and her future options or lack there of, she still dreams. For Rory part of that dream is being a girl scout. She's read the Handbook guide backwords and forwards since elementary. Girlchild follows Rory through her adolescent years. Hassman's writing and Rory captured my heart. There's a beauty and honesty to both that I loved. Hassman's style has a beauitful rhythmic fre Rory lives at The Calle de los Flores, a Reno Trailer park with her mother. Hassman's style has a beauitful rhythmic freestyle musical quality to it.

At times my heart broke for what Rory had to experience, at other times I laughed at her funny depth description of living in a trailer park. This is a ridiculosuly good debut. I never thought of myself as a girl scout type of girl but it Rory was troop leader I'd take the girl scout pledge with a quickness. I'll say two things here: I have a feeling that this book, and more Hassman's style is not for everyone and 2. Rory's tale is told in short vignettes and flashes, often out of chronological order and often through stories that contain small truths in underlying metaphors.

It's choppy at first, but the more I pulled at the layers and the deeper I traveled into the story, the more I was hooked. I highly recommend this book to anyone who appreciates language or a turn of phrase. Hassman's writing is intelligent and cutting. She creates an interesting style with Rory, preserving an open, childlike air and yet commenting with so much wit on life at the Calle.

There was a particular chapter than ended with a description of how karma caught up to the Hardware Man, and her words there made me audibly, "wow. If you are the type of reader that needs a meaty plot to be happy, perhaps this isn't the book for you. Characters, writing and style are key here, and they are all done well. I'd be lying if I said that every little chapter or flash story felt essential. There were a handful of times when I felt the drag of a particular chapter, but those moments were few, far between, and very outweighed by all that was good.

Overall, one of the best novels I've read all year. I know I'm pretty tenderhearted, but this did a good job breaking my heart. I'll miss Rory Dawn, now that I'm done reading, and really, I don't think there is a better compliment to a writer. A, B e C sono i vertici di un triangolo rettangolo, con B che designa l'angolo retto. Che cosa sta accadendo all'interno del triangolo? Mostrare tutto il procedimento. Che sei vissuta a Reno Nevada dai quattro ai dodici. E Hassman dagli occhi caricati a salve che non hai potuto comunque lasciarmi intatta, non volendolo io e non volendolo tu.

View all 8 comments. Aug 20, Lynetta rated it it was amazing Shelves: I have always admired Margaret Sanger and felt abortion should be available to any woman who wants to make that choice. Tupelo Hassman's novel with the heartbreaking character Rory Hendrix should be required reading for those who oppose women's rights. Obviously her mother in the novel, Jo, didn't make that choice with Rory or the other four brothers that departed as soon as possible.

Jo is an alcoholic smoker, a bartender, and seemingly has no end of men friends over. They live in the Calle de l I have always admired Margaret Sanger and felt abortion should be available to any woman who wants to make that choice. They live in the Calle de las Flores, a Reno trailer park full of hard-drinking, hard-living people who have a code of conduct of sharing babysitting, food and cigarettes until the food stamps will be available again.

Her grandmother is addicted to slots but is kind to Rory. The grandfather appears once and takes Rory to buy a doll. Jo throws it on the ground and insists the father leave before he does to Rory what he did to Jo. The Hardware Man, who is supposed to be her babysitter, does. It's THAT kind of book. On the first page we know it will be painful when Rory says "[B]y the time Mama was fifteen she had three teeth left that weren't already black or getting there, and jagged.

At last another girl moves in and offers the Girl Scout salute, but she, too, moves along. Rory is a troop of one trying to cope with endless problems. Rory is intelligent as well as wise beyond her years in some ways, naive in others and Jo puts on her best clothes to speak to the guidance counselor and hear that Rory is "college material.

Lombroso sounds so happy that Mama tries to be happy too. She wins a set of Academic American Encyclopedias and the right to go to the Championship where she misses "Outliar. It is so painful to read her fictional biography, but enlightening! Feb 19, Alena rated it really liked it.

I was alternating between tears brimming over and horror leaving my mouth agape. Rory Dawn suffers neglect, mistreatment and abuse at the hands of those trusted to care for her. She makes her own badges and creates her own troop. Tupelo Hassman does not shy away from the anger, bitterness or shame that go with the broken down territory. The forever you've created branches like the hairline fracture in a pelvic bone, hides like a dirty Polaroid stored under a mattress, rises like hot blood to burn cheeks pretty with shame.

Places you didn't even know you were signing your name will always be marked by your hand, but despite every new day's resolution to never do it again, you will. You'll look away from your own face in the mirror, pull the chain twice to hide from yourself in the dark, and when it's all over you won't say anything.

You won't fucking say anything to anyone ever. Instead of just feeling sorry for Rory Dawn, I marveled at her. As if knowing how hard it would be for readers to stick with dark material, Hahesmman tells the story in very short chapters, some less than a page.

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