Girlchild

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Rory Hendrix is the least likely of Girl Scouts. She hasn’t got a troop or even a badge to call her own. But she’s checked the Handbook out from the elementary school library so many times that her name fills all the lines on the card, and she pores over its surreal advice (Uniforms, disposing of outgrown; The Right Use of Your Body; Finding Your Way When Lost) for tips to get off the Calle: that is, the Calle de las Flores, the Reno trailer park where she lives with her mother, Jo, the sweet-faced, hard-luck bartender at the Truck Stop.

Rory’s been told that she is one of the “third-generation bastards surely on the road to whoredom.” But she’s determined to prove the county and her own family wrong. Brash, sassy, vulnerable, wise, and terrified, she struggles with her mother’s habit of trusting the wrong men, and the mixed blessing of being too smart for her own good. From diary entries, social workers’ reports, half-recalled memories, arrest records, family lore, Supreme Court opinions, and her grandmother’s letters, Rory crafts a devastating collage that shows us her world even as she searches for the way out of it.

Tupelo Hassman’s Girlchild is a heart-stopping and original debut.

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Megan Mayhew Bergman

Hassman avoids falling into stock characterization—the deprived but talented protagonist who overcomes great odds to achieve success—by emphasizing the gut-wrenching details of Rory's childhood. Rory's success is never guaranteed. In fact, as the novel progresses, it seems heartbreakingly unlikely…Although the novel is harrowing, Hassman's imaginative prose helps the reading go easier. Trailer park epigrams…and moments of strange beauty enhance our sense of the Calle community.
—The New York Times Book Review

Susannah Meadows

It takes real talent to make something beautiful out of a trailer park. Girlchild, Tupelo Hassman’s lacerating debut novel, is the story of Rory Dawn Hendrix, a young girl growing up in the Calle, a cluster of mobile homes on a plot of dust outside Reno, Nev. Ms. Hassman is such a poised storyteller that her prose practically struts. Her words are as elegant as they are fierce. A voice as fresh as hers is so rare that at times I caught myself cheering…I'd go anywhere with this writer.
—The New York Times

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780374162573
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date: 2/14/2012
Edition description: First Edition
Edition number: 1
Pages: 288
Sales rank: 20,104
Product dimensions: 5.60 (w) x 8.30 (h) x 1.10 (d)

Meet the Author

Tupelo Hassman graduated from Columbia’s MFA program. Her writing has been published in the Portland Review Literary Journal, Paper Street Press, Tantalum, We Still Like, and Zyzzyva, and by 100 Word Story, Five Chapters.com, and Invisible City Audio Tours.

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Girlchild

teeth

Mama always hid her mouth when she laughed. Even when she spoke too gleefully, mouth stretched too wide by those happy muscles, teeth too visible. I can still recognize someone from my neighborhood by their teeth. Or lack of them. And whenever I do, I call these people family. I know immediately that I can trust them with my dog but not with the car keys and not to remember what time, exactly, they're coming back for their kids. I know if we get into a fight and Johnny shows up we'll agree that there has been "No problem, Officer, we'll keep it down."

I know what they hide when they hide those teeth. By the time Mama was fifteen she had three left that weren't already black or getting there, and jagged. She had a long time to learn how to cover that smile. No matter how she looked otherwise, tall and long-legged, long brown hair, pale skin that held its flush, it was this something vulnerable about the mouth and eyes too that kept men coming back to her. The men would likely say this was due to her willingness to welcome them back, and Mama may have been an easy lay, but I'm cool with that because any easy lay will tell you, making it look easy is a lot of work. Still, no matter how fine she looked, especially after she got herself a set of fine white dentures for her twenty-fifth birthday, Mama never forgot how ugly she felt with those snaggly teeth. In her head, she never stopped being a rotten-mouthed girl.

It's the same with being feebleminded. No matter how smart you might appear to be later with your set of diplomas on their fine white parchment, the mistakes you made before the real lessons sunk in never fade. No matter how high you hang those documents with their official seals and signatures, how shining and polished the frame, your reflection in the glass will never let you forget how stupid you felt when you didn't know any better. You never stop seeing those gaps in your smile.

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Anonymous

Posted February 19, 2012

Girlchild

Tupelo Hassman is Shakespeare of the trailer park. Loved reading Girlchild.

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Posted March 12, 2012

Ugh

Hard to follow. Depressing.

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Posted March 7, 2012

unique but strange read -

different than anything else i've read recently, but i'm not sure i could or would recommend this book to others.

girl growing up poor, fatherless, in a trailer park, misunderstood, abused, somewhat depressing overall

author's writing is hard to follow at times

glad i read it but also glad it's finished

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Posted February 26, 2012

Hard to follow

I felt that she assumed readers could follow her thoughts more easily than they could. Very depressing concepts and attitude.

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Posted March 27, 2012

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Not What I Expected

This book has good moments but it really wasn't what I expected. Not something I'd recommend. I've read better books about traumatic childhood experiences.

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Posted May 12, 2012

Too short

I liked what I read, but it left you wanting more to the story.
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Kiwicat

Posted April 25, 2012

Hassman has written a disturbing but lyrical coming of age story

Hassman has written a disturbing but lyrical coming of age story with a twist (or maybe just twisted). A trailer park is home and the main character provides what little nurturing is available to a dysfunctional set of adults. She tries to imagine what "normal" families are like and is determined to escape the degradation of her surroundings and the self defeating behavior displayed by the sad examples of humanity populating the trailer park. Written with wry, deadpan humor (or sarcasm) the 6th grader explores sexual abuse, alcoholism, the welfare system, incompetent educators, Supreme Court decisions all of which leads her and the reader to conclude that it really, really sucks to be poor in the US. I ached for her as my mother was also toothless and pregnant at 15. I escaped this dreadful life and hope she did too.
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Posted April 22, 2012

What the.....

Very hard to follow &understand. I was disappointed I paid to read this.
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Posted April 22, 2012

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Highly Recommended. Definitely worth your time.

Although the content may be difficult to read, it is an important subject that often goes unrecognized amongst our children. Ms.Hassman has a delightful writing style that kept me engaged right through the last page.
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Posted April 14, 2012

she remembers many of the things that kids do and think to try t

she remembers many of the things that kids do and think to try to keep themselves sane in an insane world.
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Posted April 2, 2012

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Modern Lit Meets Trailer Park

Rory Dawn Hendrix is an under-privileged, imaginative young girl, growing up a the low-class trailer park known as "The Calle" (de Las Flores) outside Reno, NV. She is the mother of a teenage mother who is the daughter of a teenage mother as well. There is heartbreak and disappointment in this life, but Rory finds comfort in The Girl Scout Handbook, spelling words and using her imagination to escape. Beautifully written in brief digestible chapters, stream of consciousness and intercalary interludes lend a unique voice to the main character and her coming of age saga. I would recommend this book to anyone who is a fan of modern lit, coming of age novels, serious dramatic themes and anyone who started out with a rough beginning in life.
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Vick29

Posted March 25, 2012

Tough book to finih

Still trying to get through this book.....hate not to finish reading a book that I have paid good money for but it is hard. I guess I should keep my opinion to myself until I finally do finish it!
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Posted March 10, 2012

What does it mean to come of age?

For a girlchild being raised in a trailer park in poverty, that answer is clearly different for Rory Hendrix than it was for Holden Caulfield all those years ago. But the question remains the same. This is a brilliant modern turn on that age-old story.
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Posted March 6, 2012

Excellent Read!

I loved the voice in this book. A story of poverty, exploitation, determination and grit. Bravo.
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Girlchild

Ugh

unique but strange read -

Hard to follow

Not What I Expected

Too short

Hassman has written a disturbing but lyrical coming of age story

What the.....

Highly Recommended. Definitely worth your time.

she remembers many of the things that kids do and think to try t

Modern Lit Meets Trailer Park

Tough book to finih

What does it mean to come of age?

Excellent Read!