Body Leaping Backward: Memoir of a Delinquent Girlhood by Maureen Stanton

Body Leaping Backward: Memoir of a Delinquent Girlhood

Maureen Stanton

240 pages first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction biography memoir emotional reflective medium-paced
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For Maureen Stanton’s proper Catholic mother, the town’s maximum security prison was a way to keep her seven children in line (“If you don’t behave, I’ll put you in Walpole Prison!").  But as the 1970s brought upheaval to America, and the lines be...

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