Small Town Girls: a writer's memoir Children's Parents Books Dirty Dancing

Dirty Dancing

While she’s on a date that evening

and most beautiful experiences

so she'll finally abandon her dreams of getting him to the altar

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Small Town Girls: a writer's memoir Children's Parents Books Dirty DancingA luminous memoir in essays from the Pulitzer Prizewinning novelist, who reflects on her origins and the mysteries of memory. The painful thing about adolescence is that everything seems absolute, and the painful thing about adulthood is that nothing does. Jayne Anne Phillips grew up in the small town of Buckhannon, West Virginia. The distinctly American landscape of Appalachiadense with forests and small churches, rich in history and