Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America

Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured AmericaFrom one of our most acclaimed chroniclers of the forces eroding Americas social fabric, her most personal and powerful work: a reckoning with the changes that have rocked her own beloved small Ohio hometown Urbana, Ohio, was not a utopia when Beth Macy grew up there in the 70s and 80s, certainly not for her family. Her dad was known as the town drunk, which hurt, as did their poverty. But Urbana had a healthy economy and thriving schools, and Macy

“Gleefully overturn[s] the age-old ‘woman-in-trouble’ plot…eerie and inventive

As she finds herself struggling to navigate the uncharted roads of romance and friendship

a luminous

turning page after page

So Dani asks the universe for the perfect friend-with-benefits—someone who knows the score and knows their way around the bedroom

or will the future unfold in a way that even a Quigley couldn’t have predicted

I didn’t know what was real

Lewis's Prince Caspian

Victor Hugo’s The Hunchback of Notre-Dame is rightfully considered to be one of the finest novels ever written

and all those born into beautiful

documenting her #vanlife adventures with her rugged boyfriend

But then Qian’s headstrong Ma Ma collapses