Title: Downeast : five Maine girls and the unseen story of rural America /
Authors: Georges, Gigi
Year: 2021
Subjects: Teenage girls Maine Washington County.; Young women Maine Washington County.; SOCIAL SCIENCE Sociology Rural.; SOCIAL SCIENCE Women's Studies.; SOCIAL SCIENCE Poverty & Homelessness.; Economic history; Rural conditions; Teenage girls; Young women; Washington County (Me.) Rural conditions.; Washington County (Me.) Economic conditions.; Maine Washington County
Abstract: A chronicle based on four years of reporting follows five teenage girls as they come of age in one of the most challenging and geographically isolated regions on the Eastern seaboard--Washington County, Maine.
Contents: Prologue -- Daybreak. The downeast life ; Beginnings ; Girls gone fishing ; Pillars ; Reverence ; On the horizon -- Dilemmas. The game changers ; Frannie ; Half-hearted tragedy ; Upwind ; Digging for gold -- Across the bridge. Home ; Adrift ; Searching ; Moneyball ; Soaring -- The way life should be. Powered by lobsters ; Beyond the Sunrise Trail ; Something better ; Regaining faith ; Fighting back ; Anchored ; Found -- Epilogue.