A review by twicomb
The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America by Monica Potts

5.0

Deeply and brutally personal, while also well-researched with a lot of well-cited facts that reinforce how this individual story truly is reflective of the larger experience of many women in these circumstances. The author doesn’t pull any punches with her own involvement and (self-perceived) complicity, but also doesn’t let herself wallow in maudlin pity that would take the story away from the true center. My only request was that it be longer. I would have happily read this if it were twice as detailed and twice as long. Actually, one other tiny thing - the ending felt sudden. But that’s incredibly hard to avoid with this sort of nonfiction account, so I’ll give her a pass on that one. It could have done with a nice long authors note afterward but I still loved it. Really looking to what else this author writes.