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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Stanton, Maureen, author.     Subjects     Stanton, Maureen.     Female juvenile delinquents -- Massachusetts -- Walpole -- Biography.     Drug abuse and crime -- Massachusetts -- Walpole.     Walpole (Mass.) -- Social conditions.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Stanton, Maureen, author.       by title:      Body leaping backwar...         MARC Display

Body leaping backward : memoir of a delinquent girlhood / Maureen Stanton. by Stanton, Maureen, author. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019. Subjects Stanton, Maureen.   Female juvenile delinquents -- Massachusetts -- Walpole -- Biography.   Drug abuse and crime -- Massachusetts -- Walpole.   Walpole (Mass.) -- Social conditions. ISBN:  9781328900234 (hardback) : 1328900231 (hardback) : Description:  xv, 218 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm Requests:  0 Summary:  "The 'mesmerizing... daring and important' story of a risk-taking girlhood spent in a working-class prison town--Andre Dubus III. 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 too 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"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 364.36092 Stanton St Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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