Cinderland
Subtitle: a memoir
By: Amy Jo Burns
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780807037034
Subjects: Teenage girls; Social aspects; Community life; Girls; Truthfulness and falsehood; Child sexual abuse; Abuse of; Psychological aspects; Social conditions; Childhood and youth; Biography; History
Description: "Amy Jo Burns grew up in Mercury, PA--a small, conservative Rust Belt town fallen sleepy a decade after the steel industry's collapse. But the year Amy turned ten, everyone in Mercury woke up. That was the year Howard Lotte, Mercury's beloved piano teacher, was accused of committing indiscretions during his lessons. Among the girls questioned, only seven dared to tell the truth that would ostracize them from the community. Amy Jo Burns was one of the girls who lied. Her memoir, CINDERLAND, navigates the impact that lie had on her adolescent years to follow--tracing all the boys she ran from and toward, the girls she betrayed, and the endless performances she put on to please a town that never trusted girls in the first place. CINDERLAND is literary memoir of the highest caliber. A slim, searing feat of narrative beauty, it is full of psychologically nuanced grappling, imagery of fire and steel, and eerily universal shadows of adolescence"--
Table of contents: title: Prologue; title: Part I. Spotlight; title: Prisoner's Dilemma; title: Hide and Seek; title: Emerge; title: Figurante; title: Denouement; title: Breaking and Entering; title: Torch; title: Part II. Simon Says; title: Sober; title: Vanity Fair; title: Audition; title: Understudy; title: Mirror, Mirror; title: Part III. All the Prettiest Girls; title: Impostor; title: Paper Doll; title: Origin Story; title: Cinderland.