Studyplans

Rory Dawn Hendrix, Rory D, lives in a trailer park near Reno, Nevada.  What it is like to grow up poor and in this desert area is described vividly. Reading this book provides a different view of the area than the usual tourist experience.  Rory D. doesn't know her father, her four brothers have moved away, she loses her mother and then her grandmother. At fifteen, she is on her own with only the guidance of the Girl Scout manual.  She has lived through molestation and its effect on her, has seen how the community where she lives supports their own, and has been ill-treated by the adults who are charged to protect her.  This book is disturbing yet also hopeful as Rofy D. walks away from her double-wide to start a new life.