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Girls in Trucks
by Katie Crouch

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Sarah Walters is a less-than-perfect debutante. She tries hard to follow the time-honored customs of the Charleston Camellia Society, as her mother and grandmother did, standing up straight in cotillion class and attending lectures about all the things that Camellias don't do. (Like ride with boys in pickup trucks.)

But Sarah can't quite ignore the barbarism just beneath all that propriety, and as soon as she can she decamps South Carolina for a life in New York City. There, she and her fellow displaced Southern friends try to make sense of city sophistication, to understand how much of their training applies to real life, and how much to the strange and rarefied world they've left behind.

When life's complications become overwhelming, Sarah returns home to confront with matured eyes the motto Once a Camellia, always a Camellia — and to see how much fuller life can be, for good and for ill, among those who know you best.

Girls in Trucks introduces an irresistable, sweet, and wise voice that heralds the arrival of an exciting new talent.

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"An unenthusiastic Southern debutante copes with the cruelties of postcollege New York life in Crouch's amusing debut. Sarah Walters is neither a misfit nor the queen of the Camellia Society cotillion scene growing up in Charleston, S.C. But when she and her fellow Camellias try to make a life in New York City, they find themselves coping in unexpectedly dangerous ways — from standard substance addictions to Sarah's fixation on preppy ex-boyfriend Max, a smooth and sadistic child of wealth. While the formula of young women in the big city seems destined for clich, Crouch subverts most expectations; Sarah almost purposely misses an opportunity for happiness and stability with the gentle lover she met in Europe, and her ploy to ignite sparks with a college friend goes painfully awry. When Sarah goes back to Charleston and faces a perhaps too over-the-top family crisis (it involves suicide and lesbianism), the reader's left with the hope that the worst is over. Though this feels almost like a collection — each chapter its own story with its own narrative technique — Crouch's portrayal of a young woman's self-sabotage and the pitfalls facing young women in a cold world is wise, wry and heartbreaking." Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)

Synopsis:

In this tender debut, a less-than-perfect debutante decamps South Carolina for a life in New York City. There, she tries to make sense of city sophistication and to understand the strange and rarefied world she's left behind.
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About the Author

Katie Crouch grew up in Charleston, South Carolina and studied writing at Brown and Columbia Universities. She lives in San Francisco.
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lauraaheartsyou, May 11, 2008 (view all comments by lauraaheartsyou)
very interesting book, I also read the book in one sitting
I found it strange at times, but it was refreshing.
I don't really know how I feel about it yet,
but I defiantly enjoyed it.
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Tracey, March 12, 2008 (view all comments by Tracey)
I read this book in one sitting. I didn't mean to. But I was so caught up with the characters I didn't want to leave them alone. This book is both humorous and heartbreaking; the writing has an amazing drawn straight from life feeling.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780316002110
Author:
Crouch, Katie
Publisher:
Little Brown and Company
Subject:
Young women
Subject:
Middle class women
Subject:
General
Publication Date:
April 2008
Binding:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Pages:
241
Dimensions:
8.53x5.70x.92 in. .81 lbs.
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