Summary:

The exciting debut of a young voice that tells nothing but the truth
in exacting, charming, and often harrowing detail. In the early 1980s
in Martinsburg, West Virginia, Dorothy lives with her bartending
mother, her bar-attending stepfather, and her sweetly precocious
little brother. Dottie's nine, plagued by insomnia, asthma, earaches,
and buckteeth. She is lonely and insecure, but her intelligence and
keen sense of perception enable her to see every vivid detail of her
impoverished rural surroundings and the strange characters around
her. When her family moves to Eastern Washington State,
Dottie--confused, petulant, and feeling more alone than ever, furious
at her changing body--battles her way through junior high, where she
finds a measure of success and recognition in sports and academics.
But her hard-won little victories are tempered by her troubled family
and friends and she finds solace and distraction in alcohol,
cigarettes, and general misbehavior. Dottie--nicknamed Utah by her
teammates from the Colville Indian Reservation--becomes a star
basketball player, falls in and out of love (more than once), and
finally confronts a new, devastating emotional setback. But Dottie is
indomitable: she emerges triumphantly as a young woman with limitless
dreams and confidence in an uncertain world. Gritty and realistic, A
Girl, In Parts is never sentimental about either poverty or
childhood. Dorothy is a tough and winning character, a true-to-life
heroine perfect for the twenty-first century. First novelist Jasmine
Paul has crafted an elegant story in ninety-seven perfectly told
vignettes.

Classification:

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Dewey Class: 813.6 -- Fiction

Book Details:

Physical Description: 256 pages
Edition Info: Hardcover; 2002-08

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