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Meg, the Secret Life of an Awakening Girl | Theodora Keogh

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The initiation rites of a slum gang... the awakening beauty of spring's first morning.... Prostitute, pimp, poison-eater. Every New York street offers exciting adventure; every encounter is a new experience for Meg. Very soon she will become a New York debutante. But now she is learning about a different world and her afternoon adventures are far afield from her wealthy home or her select, expensive school... This unusual novel bares the secret life of a care-free adolescent whose uninhibited curiosity leads her into the adult world--a world of quicksilver passion and violent emotions where only a child can survive unscathed.

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Meg, the Secret Life of an Awakening Girl | Theodora Keogh

Read like the wind: “While the other students at her Manhattan all-girls private school arrive immaculately pressed, stern nursemaids in tow, the 12-year-old muse of Keogh‘s slim cometlike debut straggles in “hot and breathless, tearing up on skates or on foot.”
Meg makes the city her oyster, with all the grit and pungency that little bivalve implies. But it‘s Keogh‘s prose, bright and ruthless, that breathes life into this odd, vibrant book”