A Girl, in Parts

Category: Fiction

Publishing Information: 2002 by Counterpoint

ISBN: 158243218X

Binding: hardcover

In the early 1980s in Martinsburg, West Virginia, Dorothy ì lives with her bartending mother, her bar-attending stepfather, ì and her sweetly precocious little brother. Dottie's nine, plagued ì by insomnia, asthma, earaches, and buckteeth. She is lonely and ì insecure, but her intelligence and keen sense of perception ì enable her to see every vivid detail of her impoverished rural ì surroundings and the strange characters around her. When her ì family moves to Eastern Washington State, Dottie--confused, ì petulant, and feeling more alone than ever, furious at her ì changing body--battles her way through junior high, where she ì finds a measure of success and recognition in sports and ì academics. But her hard-won little victories are tempered by her ì troubled family and friends and she finds solace and distraction ì in alcohol, cigarettes, and general misbehavior. ì Dottie--nicknamed Utah by her teammates from the Colville Indian ì Reservation--becomes a star basketball player, falls in and out ì of love (more than once), and finally confronts a new, ì devastating emotional setback. But Dottie is indomitable: she ì emerges triumphantly as a young woman with limitless dreams and ì confidence in an uncertain world.

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