Good Girl: A Memoir
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.61 (897 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1476748977 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-10-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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(Jillian Lauren New York Times bestselling author of Some Girls: My Life in a Harem)Good Girl is a father-daughter story unlike any other I’ve read before. Tomlinson’s prose is vivid and compelling, bringing you right along with her as she travels from her rural hometown to the big city in search of fulfillment, clarity, and—hopefully—a sense of peace in her relationship with the man who made her who she is. Tomlinson is a clear-eyed yet compassionate writer, and the emotional rigor that she brings to this book is both rare and beautiful. I read it in a day and felt mournful when it was over. A forthright, sensitive, and compelling memoir about one woman's often fraught relationship with her father. Tomlinson is a woman whose emotional life is a shimmering, shifting sea the currents of which are shaped by
SundayAtDusk said A Never-Ending Saga Of Daddy Issues .. Sarah Tomlinson was born in the mid-1970s, and lived with her mother and stepfather in a house they built in Maine. They were back-to-the-land individuals, who ate healthy food and grew marijuana. They took good care of young Sarah; and while she was close to her mother, she always felt as a child that her stepf. Was it all the neglectful father's fault? Neal Reynolds Sarah's father wasn't a very good one. He was neglectful of his daughter and wasn't around when she needed him. Actually, this isn't that unusual a happening. The daughters and sons suffer, but they survive.Sarah actually was self-sufficient in several ways. She got herself into college at age fifteen. However, . "A well written page turner as you go through the author's feeling & emotions. Little lessons on being a better dad" according to XNOR. Typically, this would be the last book I would pick up in a bookstore/amazon - why would anyone want to read a biographical notes from an unknown author about her relationship/lack of it with her father ?I picked up this book after it landed in my Amazon vine review queue and I read the book description and pick
Sarah Tomlinson is a Los Angeles– and Brooklyn-based writer. Her writing has appeared in publications including Marie Claire, the Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, Salon, and Vol1Brooklyn. She has ghostwritten nine books, including two uncredited New York Times bestsellers. Visit her online at SarahTomlinson and follow her alter ego, Duchess of Rock (@DuchessofRock), on Twitter.
In this unforgettable memoir, Sarah conveys the dark comedy in her quest to repair the heart her father broke.Bittersweet, honest, and ultimately redemptive, Good Girl takes an insightful look into what happens when the people we love unconditionally are the people who disappoint us the most, and how time, introspection, and acceptance can help us heal.. After two years of attempted family life in Boston, her father’s gambling addiction and broken promises led her mother to pool her resources with five other families to buy 100 acres of land in Maine and reunite with her college boyfriend. Sarah would spend the majority of her childhood on “The Land” with infrequent, but coveted, visits from her father, who—as a hitchhiking, acid-dropping, wannabe mystic turned taxi driver—was nothing short of a rock star in her eyes.Propelled out of her bohemian upbringing to seek the big life she equated with her father, Sarah entered college at fifteen, where a school shooting further complicated her quest for a sense of safety. While establishing herself as a journalist and rock critic on both coasts, Sarah’s father continued to swerve in and out of her life, building and re-breaking their relationship, and fracturing Sarah’s confidence and sense of self. “Forthright, sensitive, and compelling” (Edan Lepucki, New York Ti