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A Girl in Parts
Category: Fiction
Author: Jasmine Paul
Copyright/published Year: 2002 by Counterpoint
ISBN: 158243218X
Binding: hardcover
In the early 1980s in Martinsburg, West Virginia, Dorothy
lives with her bartending mother, her bar-attending stepfather,
and her sweetly precocious little brother. Dottie's nine, plagued
by insomnia, asthma, earaches, and buckteeth. She is lonely and
insecure, but her intelligence and keen sense of perception
enable her to see every vivid detail of her impoverished rural
surroundings and the strange characters around her. When her
family moves to Eastern Washington State, Dottie--confused,
petulant, and feeling more alone than ever, furious at her
changing body--battles her way through junior high, where she
finds a measure of success and recognition in sports and
academics. But her hard-won little victories are tempered by her
troubled family and friends and she finds solace and distraction
in alcohol, cigarettes, and general misbehavior.
Dottie--nicknamed Utah by her teammates from the Colville Indian
Reservation--becomes a star basketball player, falls in and out
of love (more than once), and finally confronts a new,
devastating emotional setback. But Dottie is indomitable: she
emerges triumphantly as a young woman with limitless dreams and
confidence in an uncertain world.
Condition Information
This book is new.
Condition Description
This new book is from an independent book store. Has light shelf wear to cover.
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