Edith Smith. She never married, you see.' With her right hand Edith Smith's sister rubbed at the rings on the third and fourth fingers of her left hand. Next to her wedding ring she wore a small, dark ruby ring set in silver.
Fair-skinned and blond-haired, fourteen-year-old Luchi was born in a Thai prison where her American mother was being held and she has never had any other home, but when her mother dies Luchi sets out into the world to search for the family ...
. . To the young Cheryl Diamond, life felt like one big adventure, whether she was hurtling down the Himalayas in a rickety car or mingling with underworld fixers. Her family appeared to be an unbreakable gang of five.
This is the story of a girl growing up in the 1990s – a middle- schooler who finds herself lost in the gulf between childhood and adolescence, developing paralyzing fears of failure, school, other people, and her own changing body.
Clark's intimate memoir, Nowhere Girl, is the finishing touch on her incredible, therapeutic journey.
Nowhere Girl is a courageous, heart-breaking, and beautifully written story of a girl doing everything in her power to protect the ones she loves.” —Paul Haggis, Academy Award-winning writer/director of Crash, Million Dollar Baby, and ...
"In this memoir that spans dozens of countries worldwide, a young girl and her family adopt one new identity after another and run from both the law and the secrets that will eventually catch up to all of them"--
Savannah Martino was strangled to death in an abandoned house at the age of sixteen; the police in the small New Jersey town ruled her murder a random attack of opportunity.
Weaving intricate elements of traditional Thailand into a modern-day fairy tale unique unto itself, Nowhere Girl is a beautifully rendered story of courage, resilience, and finding the one place where you truly belong.
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Cadence Love is a daydreamer with a dream,side-tracked by the myriad ways life pushes and entrances you, seeking to find a way through, and out, of nowhere
Sophia... They thought sending me to this supposed tropical paradise would keep me safe.
Nowhere Girl