FREE: The Only Girl in the Car, A Memoir, by Kathy Dobie

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Hardback book in excellent condition.

Bookworm and dreamer, Kathy Dobie was a young girl with a tender heart, an adverturer's spirit, and a child's terrible confusion about her proper place in the world. As the oldest daughter in a family of six children, she seemed trapped in her role as Big Sister and Mommy's Helper. Then, one day, teetering on the brink of adolescence, hormones surging, she heard someone call her "cheesecake," and suddenly saw her path.

"Cheesecake, jailbait, sex kitten"--the very words seemed to be "doors opening" to a splendid new self. But from the moment she decides to lose her virginity and reels in her prey, a "full-grown man," fourteen-year-old Kathy is headed for trouble. One cold, raw March night some months later, parked in a car on the outskirts of town with four boys she thought were her friends, she finds it.

Though she could never have foreseen the outcome of that night, the "boys in the car could just as well have been Gypsies foretelling my future," she writes. Girls who break the rules in small towns like the one she lived in are expected to pay a very high price for their transgressions--and she did.

And yet...this young girl, as scrappy a protagonist as any in our literature, manages to transform her fate. How she stepped out of that car forever altered, to be sure, yet not forever damaged, how she was able to use her experience to take her to a place she could never have gone without it, is the story she tells in this book--an extraordinary coming-of-age tale.