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    xxpaulmartin12345x
    Dec 30, 2017
      ·  Edited: Dec 31, 2017

    Girlbomb, A Halfway Homeless Memoir

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    · Girlbomb, A Halfway Homeless Memoir by Janice Erlbaum (I think she was at Friends only for middle school, in the ‘80’s). I am grateful to Molly Peacock for telling me about Janice Erlbaum and Rebecca Wolff (The Beginners). Girlbomb is the gritty story of a girl’s coming of age in the druggy world of lower Manhattan. When her mother takes back her abusive husband for the umpteenth time, fifteen-year-old Janice leaves her home and makes her way to a midtown homeless shelter. Along with hostile and desperate girls, she encounters a colorful mix of valiance and warmth. When her mother begins divorce proceedings, she goes home, but soon finds herself ensnared in the troubles that go along with drugs and a longing for love and acceptance. Some of Janice’s imagery seems high-brow literary (as when she riffs on how she and her two friends are like a geometric figure); at the same time the teenage lingo is so authentic it jumps off the page.


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