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100	1		_aPotts, Monica, _eauthor. _9656
245	1	4	_aThe forgotten girls : _ba memoir of friendship and lost promise in rural America / _cMonica Potts.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bRandom House, _c[2023]
300			_a254 pages ; _c22 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
505	0		_aPlace -- Religion -- The School Hill house -- Boy crazy -- The rebellion -- The summer in New York -- The escape plan -- Trauma -- The goodbye -- Leaving and staying -- The party house -- Motherhood -- The money -- The Trouble -- The trailer -- Moving -- The downward spiral.
520			_a"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-broken marriages, alcohol abuse, and shuttered stores and factories. They pored over the giant map in their middle school classroom, tracing their fingers over the world that awaited them, vowing to escape. 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? What was killing poor white women-and would Darci survive her own life"-- _cProvided by publisher.
600	1	0	_aPotts, Monica. _9656
600	1	0	_aPotts, Monica _xFriends and associates. _9657
650		0	_aWomen journalists _zUnited States _vBiography. _9658
650		0	_aFemale friendship _zArkansas _zClinton. _9659
650		0	_aPoor women _zArkansas _zClinton _xSocial conditions. _9660
650		0	_aRural poor _zArkansas _zClinton _xSocial conditions. _9661
650		0	_aWomen drug addicts _zArkansas _zClinton. _9662
650		0	_aAuthors _zArkansas _9681
651		0	_aArkansas _vBiography. _9664
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aPotts, Monica. _tForgotten girls _dNew York : Random House, [2023] _z9780525519928 _w(DLC) 2022006768
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