Girls in Trucks, Katie Crouch
Girls in Trucks, Katie Crouch
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Girls in Trucks

Author: Katie Crouch

Narrator: Joshua Ferris

Unabridged: 6 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/07/2008


Synopsis

Sarah Walters is a less-than-perfect debutante. She tries hard to follow the time-honored customs of the Charleston Camellia Society, as her mother and grandmother did, standing up straight in cotillion class and attending lectures about all the things that Camellias don't do. (Like ride with boys in pickup trucks.)

But Sarah can't quite ignore the barbarism just beneath all that propriety, and as soon as she can she decamps South Carolina for a life in New York City. There, she and her fellow displaced Southern friends try to make sense of city sophistication, to understand how much of their training applies to real life, and how much to the strange and rarefied world they've left behind.

When life'

s complications become overwhelming, Sarah returns home to confront with matured eyes the motto "Once a Camellia, always a Camellia" -- and to see how much fuller life can be, for good and for ill, among those who know you best.

Girls in Trucks introduces an irresistable, sweet, and wise voice that heralds the arrival of an exciting new talent.

About Katie Crouch

Katie Crouch is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels Girls in Trucks, Men and Dogs, and Abroad. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, McSweeney’s, Tin House, Slate, and Salon. A MacDowell Fellow, she teaches at Dartmouth College and lives in Vermont.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Imogen on September 02, 2008

Look, the only reason I don't have a bunch of Kathy Acker tattoos is that I'm broke, and that's also the only reason I don't collect Dennis Cooper first editions. The only two reasons I don't talk about liking Chuck Palahniuk are the anti-intellectual implications of joining The Cult and the fact th......more

Goodreads review by fleegan on June 13, 2008

The back cover lies about how funny it is. But humor isn't everything, and I could've over looked it's unhumorousness if I could've at LEAST liked the main character, Sarah. She was pathetic, and then, when she gets older and knows that she's pathetic and remains pathetic? Well, I don't like that. P......more

Goodreads review by Toni on January 27, 2012

I don't usually bother taking issue with negative comments that others have made about books that I've enjoyed because the way I feel about books is the way I feel about people: I have my opinion of them and others have theirs, and it's not going to help to argue if we don't agree. That being said, I......more

Goodreads review by Betsy on April 22, 2008

This past Sunday's SF Chronicle review did a very good job of summing up some of my qualms as well as some of the better parts of this book. The fact that the narrative voice changes part way through from 1st to 3rd to 2nd person is jarring. Parts of the novel felt like a cluster of connected short......more