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July 16, 2019
Today's Featured Title and Contest
This Bookreporter.com Special Newsletter spotlights a book that we think is a great summer reading selection. Read more about it, and enter our Summer Reading Contest by Wednesday, July 17th at 11:59am ET for a chance to win one of five copies of BODY LEAPING BACKWARD: Memoir of a Delinquent Girlhood by Maureen Stanton, which is now available. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!
Today's Featured Book and Contest:
BODY LEAPING BACKWARD:
Memoir of a Delinquent Girlhood, by Maureen Stanton
For Maureen Stanton’s proper Catholic mother, the town’s maximum security prison was a way to keep her seven children in line (“If you don’t behave, I’ll put you in Walpole Prison!"). But as the 1970s brought upheaval to America, and the lines between good and bad blurred, Stanton’s once-solid family lost its way.
A promising young girl with a smart mouth, Stanton turns watchful as her parents separate and her now-single mother descends into shoplifting, then grand larceny --- anything to keep a toehold in the middle class for her children. No longer scared by threats of Walpole Prison, Stanton also slips into delinquency --- vandalism, breaking and entering --- all while nearly erasing herself through addiction to angel dust, a homemade form of PCP that swept through her hometown in the wake of Nixon’s “total war” on drugs.
BODY LEAPING BACKWARD is the haunting and beautifully drawn story of a self-destructive girlhood, of a town and a nation overwhelmed in a time of change, and of how life-altering a glimpse of a world bigger than the one we come from can be.
- Click here to read an excerpt.
- Click here to connect with Maureen Stanton on Twitter.
Click here to enter the contest
by 11:59am ET on Wednesday, July 17th.
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