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The Only Girl in the Car
The Only Girl in the Car: A Memoir | Kathy Dobie
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The Only Girl in the Car Bookworm and dreamer, Kathy was a young girl with a tender heart, an adventurers spirit, and a childs terrible confusion about her proper place in the world. As the oldest daughter in a family of six children, she seemed trapped in her role as Big Sister and Mommys Helper. Then, one day, teetering on the brink of adolescence, hormones surging, she heard someone call her cheesecake, and suddenly saw her path. Cheesecake, jailbait, sex kitten--the very words seemed to be doors opening to a splendid new self. But from the moment she decides to lose her virginity and reels in her prey, a full-grown man, fourteen-year-old Kathy is headed for trouble. One cold, raw March night some months later, parked in a car with four boys on the outskirts of her small suburban town, she finds it. Though she could never have foreseen the outcome of that night, the boys in the car could just as well have been Gypsies foretelling my future, she writes. Girls who break the rules in small towns like the one she lived in are expected to pay a very high price for their transgressions--and she did. And yet...this young girl, as scrappy a protagonist as any in our literature, manages to transform her fate. The story of how she came to be in that car, and how she stepped out of it forever altered, to be sure, yet not forever damaged, is the theme of this extraordinary coming-of-age tale. From the Hardcover edition.
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goose9413
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Probably the best memoir that I've ever read!! I truly believe we all go through hard times in life- but we all have that one life event that sticks with us, no matter our age.. no matter how many years have passed since the event. Kathy bravely and openly wrote this book about hers & I'm so glad she did! This is a MUST READ!

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Has been a while since I read this but this woman's strength and healing stayed with me long after closing the book. Trigger warning for sexual assault 🙁#memorablememoirs #booktober @RealLifeReading

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