Body Leaping Backward: Memoir of a Delinquent Girlhood

by Maureen Stanton

Book Overview

The "mesmerizing . . . daring and important"* story of a risk-taking girlhood spent in a working-class prison town
*Andre Dubus III

For Maureen Stanton's proper Catholic mother, the town's maximum security prison was a way to keep her seven children in line ("If you don't behave, I'll put you in Walpole Prison!"). But as the 1970s brought upheaval to America, and the lines between good and bad blurred, Stanton's once-solid...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1328900231
• ISBN13: 9781328900234
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"