At fifteen, sick of her unbearable and increasingly dangeroushome life, Janice Erlbaum walked out of her family’s Brooklynapartment and didn’t look back. From her first frightening night ata shelter, Janice knew she was in over her head. She was beaten up,shaken down, and nearly stabbed by a pregnant girl. But it wasstill better than living at home. As Janice slipped further intostreet life, she nevertheless attended high school, harboredcrushes, and even played the lead in the spring musical. She alsoroamed the streets, clubs, bars, and parks of New York City withher two best girlfriends, on the prowl for hard drugs and boys onskateboards. Together they scored coke at Danceteria, smoked angeldust in East Village squats, commiserated over their crazy mothers,and slept with one another’s boyfriends on a regular basis. A wry, mesmerizing portrait of being underprivileged, underage, andunderdressed in 1980s New York City, Girlbomb provides anunflinching look at street life, survival sex, female friends
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As a twelve-year-old girl, Maria Housden’s vision of a happyfuture included everything that society expects girls to yearn for:a home, a husband, and, of course, children. Life had otherplans. Unraveled is Housden’s riveting and thoughtful story of how,after the death of her young daughter, she found the courage tobreak away from her role as a wife and stay-at-home mom and strikeout on her own in search of a more fulfilling life. Leaving herthree surviving children in the primary custody of her husband,Housden faced down the disbelief of friends and family and began ajourney that would ultimately lead her not only to the truth aboutherself, but also to a deeper and more loving connection with herchildren. Housden writes about the emotional reckoning that led to herdecision and the ways in which she has become the best mother shecan be while no longer living with her children full-time. Withfierce honesty and the same gift for poignantly beautiful writingthat she demonstrated in the best
