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Body Leaping Backward: Memoir of a Delinquent Girlhood

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For Maureen Stanton's proper Catholic mother, the town's maximum security prison was a way to keep her seven children in line . 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.

Format: Audio CD

Release: July 16, 2019

ISBN 13: 9781684574018

Body Leaping Backward: Memoir of a Delinquent Girlhood

3/5 ( ratings)

For Maureen Stanton's proper Catholic mother, the town's maximum security prison was a way to keep her seven children in line . 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.

Format: Audio CD

Release: July 16, 2019

ISBN 13: 9781684574018

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