Loose Girl

Loose Girl

2008 • 210 pages

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15

This was donated to our library by some random patron, and before I consigned it to the box of books destined for the local jail because it's a paperback, I decided to read it as a palate cleanser. I devoured it in about 4 hours, 3 last night and one this morning. I enjoyed it a good bit more than I thought I would, and typically I'm not into memoirs. I appreciated the journey this girl (now woman) took to fill a void, which we all try to do. I've spent a lot of hours on a therapist's couch trying to observe my own behavior and crippling loneliness from my childhood trauma, and as we are coming to know, childhood trauma doesn't have to just be abuse–it's divorce, it's the death of a parent, etc, which changes your brain and your thinking. Top marks for a good, easy, and interesting read.

May 2, 2019