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“A voice as fresh as hers is so rare that at times I caught myself cheering. . . .I’d go anywhere with this writer.”—-Susannah Meadows, The New York Times
“So fresh, original, and funny you’ll be in awe… Tupelo Hassman has created a character you’ll never forget. Rory Dawn Hendrix of the Calle has as precocious and endearing a voice as Holden Caulfield of Central Park.”—-The Boston Globe
“A lyrical and fiercely accomplished first novel...In Hassman’s skilled hands, what could have been an unrelenting chronicle of desolation becomes a lovely tribute to the soaring, defiant spirit of a survivor.”—-People
“Moments of strange beauty enhance our sense of the Calle community….[Hassman] makes Rory’s milieu feel universal.”—-Megan Mayhew Bergman, The New York Times Book Review
“Powerful…Rory transcends her bleak situation through dark humor and unaccountable smarts.”—-San Francisco Chronicle
“This amazing debut spills over with love, but is still absolutely unflinching and real.”—-Aimee Bender, author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
Overview
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
Rory Hendrix, the least likely of Girl Scouts, hasn’t got a troop or a badge to call her own. But she still borrows the Handbook from the elementary school library to pore over its advice, looking for tips to get off the Calle—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 she is one of the “third-generation ...