{"product_id":"body-leaping-backward-memoir-of-a-delinquent-girlhood-isbn-9781328900234","title":"Body Leaping Backward: Memoir of a Delinquent Girlhood","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eThe “mesmerizing . . . daring and important”* story of a risk-taking girlhood spent in a working-class prison town\u003cbr\u003e *Andre Dubus III\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eBody Leaping Backward\u003c\/em\u003e 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.     \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   | \u003cp\u003e“A blazingly important memoir about the possibility of change.”  —\u003cem\u003ePeople Magazine, \u003c\/em\u003eBest New Books   “Forget the cult of the bad boy, Maureen Stanton's \u003cem\u003eBody Leaping Backward \u003c\/em\u003emakes my skin shiver and my heart pound out a hell yes. Set in the 70s and the coming wave of drugs, a family falls to pieces. The mother descends into delinquency and soon Maureen follows—but this story reminds us how mothers and daughters clawing their way back to life is \u003cstrong\u003ean epic journey of courage and guts and heart. A triumph\u003c\/strong\u003e.”    —Lidia Yuknavitch, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Misfit’s Manifesto\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Chronology of Water\u003c\/em\u003e    \u003cem\u003e“Body Leaping Backward\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003ebursting with radiant storytelling\u003c\/strong\u003e, seamlessly sets Maureen Stanton's childhood struggles against the unraveling social tapestry that was America in the 1970s. This is a page-turning narrative that illuminates so much about her personal and our cultural darkest moments.”    —Michael Patrick MacDonald, author of \u003cem\u003eAll Souls: A Family Story from Southie\u003c\/em\u003e     \"The miracle isn't how Maureen Stanton survived her harrowing adolescence, but how she can write about it with such beauty and clarity.\u003cstrong\u003e I read this in one heart-in-my-throat sitting\u003c\/strong\u003e.\"    —Monica Wood, author of \u003cem\u003eWhen We Were the Kennedys \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eThe One-in-a- Million Boy\u003c\/em\u003e     “Written with sensual, poetic, and evocative prose, this remarkable memoir is an honest exploration of what it means to come of age in the quiet wreckage of a broken home, when social norms were shifting and it was so very easy to fall perilously between the cracks. \u003cstrong\u003eA deeply moving, timely, and important memoir\u003c\/strong\u003e.”  —Andre Dubus III, author of \u003cem\u003eTownie\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eGone So Long \u003c\/em\u003e   “I read Maureen Stanton’s memoir with respect and appreciation. \u003cstrong\u003eI am proud and heartbroken at the story she tells\u003c\/strong\u003e—proud that she reached a point where she could write it all down, and heartbroken at how much courage and resilience is necessary to survive.”  —Dorothy Allison, author of \u003cem\u003eTwo or Three Things I Know for Sure \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eBastard out of Carolina\u003c\/em\u003e     “A masterful storyteller, Maureen Stanton has written a timeless and timely memoir of an all-American girlhood derailed by drugs and loss, which is both \u003cstrong\u003eheartbreaking and hilarious\u003c\/strong\u003e. \u003cem\u003eBody Leaping Backward\u003c\/em\u003e is a luminous portrait of a family and a country at a crucial moment of change. Important and riveting, this is a wonder of a book.”   —E.J. Levy, author of \u003cem\u003eLove, in Theory\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Cape Doctor\u003c\/em\u003e   “An unsparing look at a girlhood that veers off the rails into young adulthood. Sharp, candid, and deeply felt, her story shows the way our upbringings live on in our blood.”   —\u003cem\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/em\u003e   “Powerful and probing, Stanton's book offers a sharp portrait of a wayward girl \"leaping backward\" into disaster. Along the way, she reveals the way individuals are as much a product of time and place as they are of the families to which they belong.  A compellingly honest coming-of-age memoir.”  —\u003cem\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e   “Engaging . . . this is a great choice for memoir readers and anyone interested in the ’70s.”  —\u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e   \"Memorable and beautiful.\"  —\u003cem\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/em\u003e   \"An informative, intelligent read for anyone, young or old, trying to make sense of teenage rebellion . . . A well-told, insightful memoir that could hardly be more relevant today.\"  —\u003cem\u003eBookPage\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mariner Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44890284490981,"sku":"NP9781328900234","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781328900234.jpg?v=1730232943","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/body-leaping-backward-memoir-of-a-delinquent-girlhood-isbn-9781328900234","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}