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Overview

In one of the poorest parts of rural New Hampshire, teenage girls have been disappearing, snatched from back country roads, never to be seen alive again.  For seventeen-year-old Marjorie Richards, the fear raised by these abductions is the backdrop to what she lives with her own home, every day.  Marjorie has been raised by parents so intentionally isolated from normal society that they have developed their own dialect, a kind of mountain hybrid of English that displays both their ignorance of and disdain for the wider world.  Marjorie is tormented by her classmates, who call her “The Talk-funny girl,” but as the nearby factory town sinks deeper into economic ruin and as her parents fall more completely under the influence of a sadistic cult leader, her options for escape dwindle.  But then, thanks to a loving aunt, Marjorie is hired by a man, himself a victim of abuse, who is building what he calls “a cathedral,” right in the center of town.
 
Day by day, Marjorie’s skills as a stoneworker increase, and so too does her intolerance for the bitter rules of her family life.  Gradually, through exposure to the world beyond her parents’ wood cabin thanks to the kindness of her aunt and her boss, and an almost superhuman determination, she discovers what is loveable within herself.  This newfound confidence and self-esteem ultimately allows her to break free from the bleak life she has known, to find love, to start a family, and to try to heal her old, deep wounds without passing that pain on to her husband and children.
 
By turns darkly menacing and bright with love and resilience, The Talk-Funny Girl is the story of one young woman’s remarkable courage, a kind of road map for the healing of early abuse, and a testament to the power of kindness and love.  

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Merullo's (Breakfast with Buddha) coming-of-age story is told from afar by Marjorie Richards, now a married mother of two, but 20-some years ago a poor girl with an awkward dialect stuck in rural New Hampshire with abusive parents. On the eve of her 17th birthday, Margie's dad tells her to find "full-pay work" and she gets a job helping Sands Ivers build a cathedral from the ruins of a burned church. It's a lucky break, as Sands's recovery from past trauma shows Margie how to shed her damaged adolescent shell in favor of a young woman's self-assurance—if she doesn't end up murdered, that is, as a sadistic killer is rounding up and murdering young girls in the area. The adult Margie's desire to relive this year is fueled by her need to break the chain of abuse. She evaluates the psychology that kept her a victim to her parents' sadism, but that sadism, which is over the top, and Margie's emotional remove make it hard to empathize. The kidnap-and-murder plot Merullo adds keeps the pages turning, but it resolves with a conclusion that, though twisted, seems to involve almost everyone Margie knows, putting a further strain on the reader's belief. (July)
Carolyn See
…this isn't just another story about an unfortunate girl escaping terrible circumstances or a gothic mystery about missing children, and it's even better than I can make it sound. Set as it is in New England, it looks at the American connection between devout religion and veiled murderousness—the same deadly combination that once tore through Salem. Where does that impulse come from, and how does it inform our current lives? That's what Roland Merullo wants us to consider.
—The Washington Post

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780307452924
  • Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
  • Publication date: 7/5/2011
  • Pages: 320
  • Sales rank: 99,310
  • Product dimensions: 6.28 (w) x 9.54 (h) x 1.12 (d)

Meet the Author

ROLAND MERULLO is the acclaimed author of twelve previous books, including Revere Beach Boulevard, In Revere in Those Days, A Little Love Story, Golfing with God, Breakfast with Buddha, and American Savior. Merullo has won numerous prizes, including the Massachusetts Book Award for both fiction and nonfiction. He lives in Massachusetts with his wife and two children.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 14, 2012

    Fantastic,eye opening

    This book will surely open your eyes to the brutality that some children face. Although a novel, I can believe that this isn't unheard of. The author has a spectacular way of bringing you into every detail right from the first page. I am enjoying it so much that at a quarter of the way through, I'm giving it 5 stars!!! I love when I don't have to struggle at the beginning of a book to"get into it".

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 9, 2012

    Katie j.

    Ok i have alot of dreams! A few of the most important are: owning a wild horse sactuary and an adoption/rescue center for horses in need. (A wild horse sactuary is a privatly owned area of land set aside especially for wild horses to run free without being rounded up by a harmful organization that hurts them and slls the horses into captivity.) I also want to host a rescue program that pairs abused or disabled children with abused or disabled horses. A lady in oergon does that and in her book it says how much the kids and horses can accomplish together... and how they grow from shy hurt horses and kids to loving and happy horses and kids. I also want to travel the worlds poorest countrys and help any person on the streets there. I also want to adopt kids from china or another country likevthat to give them another chamce. I want to help find a cure for neutropenia a sevre blood desiese that both my sisters have. And the last one is silly and it wont happen... but ive always wanted to fly around the world. And not in an airplane but like a bird. I know God will help me achievw my GOals if i pray and work hard. I dont expect tto live all my dreams but i want to try my best.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 6, 2012

    Aly

    Hmm.. I am central time and usually any time after 3:30 is good as long as I am not doing anything.. :P

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 8, 2012

    izzy

    My dream is to star in movies. It has been since the summer but ive never been so sure of anythin as i am of this. I know if it is God's will it will happen. I hope it is because i want this sooo bad tho i know thousands of people do as well. But since actors and celebrities can be so looked up to id hope to be one that is so i could use my faith and fame to reach others. So that's my dream.

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    Posted April 7, 2012

    Arielle

    Ok.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 11, 2012

    Kimberly to Girl Talk!!!

    Katie m was blocked. We are moving to "Gods girls" result 2. Thanks for the cooperation!

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  • Posted October 25, 2011

    Incredible page turner. The story broke my heart.

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