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Rory Hendrix is the least likely of Gal Scouts. She hasn't got a troop or perhaps a badge to call her own. But she's inspected the Handbook right out of the elementary school library so often that her name fills all the lines on the credit card, and she skin pores over its surreal advice ("Uniforms, disposing of outgrown"; "The Right Use of Your Body"; "Finding Your Way When Lost") for tips to log off the Calle: that is, the Calle de las Flores, the Reno truck recreation area where she lives with her mom, Jo, the sweet-faced, hard-luck bartender at the Vehicle Stop. Rory's been advised that she is one of the "third-generation bastards surely on the path to whoredom". But she's motivated to show the state and her own family wrong. Brash, sassy, prone, wise, and terrified, she challenges with her mother's habit of trusting the incorrect men, and the blended blessing of being too smart on her behalf own good. From journal entries, social individuals' records, half-recalled stories, arrest records, family lore, Supreme Court ideas, and her grandmother's letters, Rory crafts a devastating collage that presents us her world, even while she searches for the way out of it. Tupelo Hassman's Girlchild is a heart-stopping and original debut.
