{"product_id":"all-the-lost-girls-patricia-foster-9780817312480","title":"All the Lost Girls: Confessions of a Southern Daughter","description":"\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the PEN\/Jerard Fund Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Patricia Foster's lyrical yet often painful memoir explores the life of a white middle-class girl who grew up in rural south Alabama in the 1950s and 1960s, a time and place that did not tolerate deviation from traditional gender roles. Her mother raised Foster and her sister as \"honorary boys,\" girls with the ambition of men but the temperament of women. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e An unhappy, intelligent woman who kept a heartbreaking secret from everyone close to her, Foster's mother was driven by a repressed rage that fed her obsession for middle-class respectability. By the time Foster reached age fifteen, her efforts to reconcile the contradictory expectations that she be at once ambitious and restrained had left her nervous and needy inside even while she tried to cultivate the appearance of the model student, sister, and daughter. It was only a psychological and physical breakdown that helped her to realize that she couldn't save her driven, complicated mother and must struggle instead for both understanding and autonomy. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Patricia Foster\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 081731248X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780817312480\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Alabama Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/19\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 328\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.01lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.58h x 6.28w x 0.84d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKliatt\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2003 pg. 26","brand":"Patricia Foster","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46110649024767,"sku":"9780817312480","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0dfbc4f7-2684-47b2-88eb-c03b1ec3527a.jpg?v=1725469381","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/all-the-lost-girls-patricia-foster-9780817312480","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}