The Denim Diaries
A Memoir
by Laurie Boyle Crompton
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Pub Date Nov 14 2023 | Archive Date Nov 30 2023
Lerner Publishing Group | Zest Books ™
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Description
Laurie Boyle Crompton’s coming of age in rural Pennsylvania and the New York City area in the 1970s and 1980s was anything but idyllic. In moving verse accompanied by diary-esque sketches, Crompton takes you along as she navigates relationships, plays the happy family at church despite discord at home, manages her mother’s ambitions and her father’s alcoholism, struggles with her self-image, and desperately tries to fit in at school by squeezing into too-tight designer denim.
Both heartwarming and heartbreaking, The Denim Diaries follows Crompton’s journey through disordered eating and sexual assault to acceptance and recovery. Her vivid poems recall the highs and lows of a life filled with hardship and joy alike. At times both harrowing and humorous, this memoir brings new perspective to the importance of self-love and finding hope in the darkest of times.
A Note From the Publisher
This title is also available as a library bound for $38.65 (ISBN: 9781728477503).
Available Editions
EDITION | Other Format |
ISBN | 9798765604885 |
PRICE | $18.99 (USD) |
PAGES | 352 |