She lived, and the other girls died : essays /
Sandy, Kirsti(Kirsti Anne),author.
"Winner of the 2017 Monadnock Essay Collection Prize, judge Andrew Merton describes this collection of essays as a 'coming-of-age memoir infused with a refreshing generosity of spirit'. The collection follows the young author as she grows up in the Lowell area, living the mill town life of the '70s and '80s, and later finds her way to New Hampshire for schooling and to begin her adult life. Her stories host a cast of colorful and complex characters and wonderfully varied settings. The experiences she shares resonate and inspire"--
"Winner of the 2017 Monadnock Essay Collection Prize, judge Andrew Merton describes this collection of essays as a 'coming-of-age memoir infused with a refreshing generosity of spirit'. The collection follows the young author as she grows up in the Lowell area, living the mill town life of the '70s and '80s, and later finds her way to New Hampshire for schooling and to begin her adult life. Her stories host a cast of colorful and complex characters and wonderfully varied settings. The experiences she shares resonate and inspire"--
Monadnock Essay Collection Prize 2017
Lowell, Massachusetts, 1974-1979 -- Mill girl -- Surveillance -- Fovea centralis -- Child psychology -- Nellie and Nadia -- The police chief's wife -- Dormition -- Dinner in the graveyard -- Andover, Massachusetts, 1980-1985 -- The boy in the cafeteria -- You could do worse than Muffy Schindelman, or five things my mother said in 1980 -- Containment theory -- The Lowell that came later -- Unnecessary lessons -- Conversations with Monica -- Gilford, New Hampshire, 1985-1986 -- Jill, driving -- The girls in the news -- The dairy queen window -- Nashua, New Hampshire, Coeur de Pierre College for Women, 1987-1990 -- She lived, and the other girls died -- Voodoo economics -- Nothing you are is not a commodity -- I have nothing to say about my eating disorder -- Man on the floor -- Gilford, New Hampshire, 1990 -- The difference between comedy and tragedy -- Bellows Falls, Vermont, 2015 -- I have come for what belongs to me.
Sandy, Kirsti (Kirsti Anne)
Girls
Young women
Coming of age
Coming of age.
Girls.
Young women.
She lived, and the other girls died