In one grim episode, she and a girlfriend spied on a fraternity meeting, becoming stunned witnesses to a gang rape. She also writes about her disappointment when bad acne kept her, a talented athlete, from making the cheerleading team.
With verve, she relates how she cleverly manipulated her way into the popular girls’ clique in high school, how she nearly burned down the doughnut shop where she worked and how her plan to paint the neighborhood lawn jockeys white went awry.
This sequel to Too Close to the Falls (2001) picks up the story in 1960 with the willful, exuberant 12-year-old author entering adolescence and exiting small-town Lewiston, N.Y., for a new life in a Buffalo suburb.Ī former clinical psychologist, Gildiner is also a gifted storyteller.
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