Bibliograph

The forgotten girls, a memoir of friendship and lost promise in rural America, Monica Potts

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The forgotten girls, a memoir of friendship and lost promise in rural America, Monica Potts

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The forgotten girls

Responsibility statement

Monica Potts

Sub title

a memoir of friendship and lost promise in rural America

Summary

Growing up gifted and poor in small-town Arkansas, Monica and Darci became fast friends. The girls bonded over a shared love of reading and learning, even as they navigated the challenges of their declining town and tumultuous family lives, In the end, Monica got out, but Darci, along with the rest of their circle of friends, did not. Years later, working as a journalist covering poverty, Monica discovered what she already intuitively knew about the women in Arkansas: Their life expectancy had steeply declined, the sharpest such fall in a century. Most painfully, her once talented and ambitious best friend was now a single mother of two, addicted to meth and prescription drugs, jobless and nearly homeless. What had happened in the years since Monica had left? Why had she escaped while Darci hurtled toward what Monica fears will be a tragic end?

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