Body Leaping Backward: Memoir of a Delinquent Girlhood [Original retail ed.] 1328900231, 978-1328900234
For Maureen Stanton’s proper Catholic mother, the town’s maximum security prison was a way to keep her seven children in
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- “Forget the cult of the bad boy, Maureen Stanton’s Body Leaping Backward makes 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 an epic journey of courage and guts and heart. A triumph.” —Lidia Yuknavitch, author of The Misfit’s Manifesto and The Chronology of Water
