| Title | : | The Talk-Funny Girl: A Novel |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.67 (691 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 030745293X |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2012-08-21 |
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***A 2012 ALEX Award Winner***In one of the poorest parts of rural New Hampshire, teenage girls have been disappearing, snatched from back country roads, never to be seen alive again. For seventeen-year-old Marjorie Richards, the fear raised by these abductions is the backdrop to what she lives with her own home, every day. Marjorie has been raised by parents so intentionally isolated from normal society that they have developed their own dialect, a kind of mountain hybrid of English that displays both their ignorance of and disdain for the wider world. Marjorie is tormented by her classmates, who call her "The Talk-funny girl," but as the nearby factory town sinks deeper into economic ruin and as her parents fall more completely under the influence of a sadistic cult leader, her options for escape dwindle. But then, thanks to a loving aunt, Marjorie is hired by a man, himself a victim of abuse, who is building what he calls "a cathedral," right in the center of
Editorial : A Letter from Author Roland MerulloThe Talk-Funny Girl came as a surprise to me because I’ve lived in rural New England for the past thirty years and never set a novel here. I’m a city kid by birth and upbringing, and though I like living in the country--a good place to raise kids, a good place to work--my inspiration has always come from the mix of faces, voices, and characters of urban life. I never plan what I’m going to write, and never outline. I just sit down with a pad of yellow paper and a favorite fountain pen, or with my laptop, start putting words on the page or screen and see where it leads. This time it led me into the world of Marjorie Richards, a remarkable seventeen-year-old young woman whose life is about as different from my own as two lives can be. It wasn’t until I was hundreds of pages into the book that I remembered something I’d seen in a convenience store in Pownal, Vermont, in the early 1980’s, and realized the
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