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Body Leaping Backward: Memoir of a Delinquent Girlhood – A Story of Addiction and Survival in a 1970s Catholic Prison Town

Maureen Stanton

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Description:For Maureen Stanton’s proper Catholic mother, the town’s maximum security prison was a way to keep her seven children in line (“If you don’t behave, I’ll put you in Walpole Prison!"). But as the 1970s brought upheaval to America, and the lines between good and bad blurred, Stanton’s once-solid family lost its way. A promising young girl with a smart mouth, Stanton turns watchful as her parents separate and her now-single mother descends into shoplifting, then grand larceny, anything to keep a toehold in the middle class for her children. No longer scared by threats of Walpole Prison, Stanton too slips into delinquency—vandalism, breaking and entering—all while nearly erasing herself through addiction to angel dust, a homemade form of PCP that swept through her hometown in the wake of Nixon’s “total war” on drugs.Body Leaping Backward is the haunting and beautifully drawn story of a self-destructive girlhood, of a town and a nation overwhelmed in a time of change, and of how life-altering a glimpse of a world bigger than the one we come from can be. We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Body Leaping Backward: Memoir of a Delinquent Girlhood – A Story of Addiction and Survival in a 1970s Catholic Prison Town. To get started finding Body Leaping Backward: Memoir of a Delinquent Girlhood – A Story of Addiction and Survival in a 1970s Catholic Prison Town, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: For Maureen Stanton’s proper Catholic mother, the town’s maximum security prison was a way to keep her seven children in line (“If you don’t behave, I’ll put you in Walpole Prison!"). But as the 1970s brought upheaval to America, and the lines between good and bad blurred, Stanton’s once-solid family lost its way. A promising young girl with a smart mouth, Stanton turns watchful as her parents separate and her now-single mother descends into shoplifting, then grand larceny, anything to keep a toehold in the middle class for her children. No longer scared by threats of Walpole Prison, Stanton too slips into delinquency—vandalism, breaking and entering—all while nearly erasing herself through addiction to angel dust, a homemade form of PCP that swept through her hometown in the wake of Nixon’s “total war” on drugs.Body Leaping Backward is the haunting and beautifully drawn story of a self-destructive girlhood, of a town and a nation overwhelmed in a time of change, and of how life-altering a glimpse of a world bigger than the one we come from can be. We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Body Leaping Backward: Memoir of a Delinquent Girlhood – A Story of Addiction and Survival in a 1970s Catholic Prison Town. To get started finding Body Leaping Backward: Memoir of a Delinquent Girlhood – A Story of Addiction and Survival in a 1970s Catholic Prison Town, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Body Leaping Backward: Memoir of a Delinquent Girlhood – A Story of Addiction and Survival in a 1970s Catholic Prison Town

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