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The Forgotten Girls by Monica Potts

The Forgotten Girls

A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America

by Monica Potts
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  • First Published:
  • May 30, 2023, 272 pages
  • Paperback:
  • Apr 2024, 272 pages
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Rebecca Traister, author of Good and Mad
The Forgotten Girls is beautiful and hard, a deeply reported memoir of a place, a friendship, a childhood and a country riven by systemic injustices transformed into individual tragedies. Monica Potts is a gifted writer; I read this extraordinary story of friendship and sisterhood, ambition and loss in rural America in one sitting; it is propulsive, clear and really important.”
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