Overview
*Andre Dubus III
For Maureen StantonāsĀ properĀ CatholicĀ mother,Ā the townās maximum security prison wasĀ a way to keep her seven children in line (āIf you donāt behave, Iāll put you in Walpole Prison!").Ā Ā But asĀ the 1970s brought upheavalĀ to America, and the linesĀ between good and bad blurred,Ā Stantonās once-solid family lost its way. AĀ promising youngĀ girl with a smart mouth,Ā Stanton turns watchfulĀ as her parents separate and her now-singleĀ mother descends into shoplifting, then grand larceny, anything toĀ keep a toehold in the middle class for her children.Ā No longer scared by threats of Walpole Prison, StantonĀ too slips into delinquencyāvandalism, breaking and enteringāall while nearly erasing herself through addiction to angel dust, a homemade form of PCP that swept through her hometown in the wake of Nixonās ātotal warā on drugs.
Body Leaping Backward is the haunting and beautifully drawn story of a self-destructive girlhood, ofĀ a town and a nationĀ overwhelmed inĀ a time of change, and of how life-alteringĀ a glimpse of a worldĀ bigger than the one we come from canĀ be. Ā Ā Ā Ā
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This book title, Body Leaping Backward (Memoir of a Delinquent Girlhood), ISBN: 9781328900234, by Maureen Stanton, published by HMH Books (July 16, 2019) is available in hardcover. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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