{"product_id":"good-girl-laura-jensen-walker-9798985940701","title":"Good Girl: a memoir of overcoming rape, breast cancer \u0026 fundamentalism","description":"\u003cp\u003eLaura Jensen Walker was always a good girl. Growing up in the Midwest in the 1960s, she was a polite, straight-A student who respected her elders, went to church on Sunday, and never gave her parents any trouble. Bookworm Laura was the poster child for good girls everywhere. Until one fateful night in a college fraternity house. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA dreamer and optimist who always bounced back quickly from disappointments and hard times, Laura buried the memory of the-thing-that-must-not-be-named. After that awful night, she plunged headlong into life, joining the Air Force and flying a typewriter across Europe in an exciting, death-defying job as a clerk-typist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the journey of a \"good-girl-gone-bad-gone-good-again\" and her search for belonging and acceptance, with funny and not-so-funny detours through boot camp, Britain, book-burning, breast cancer, and born-again evangelicals. Ultimately, it's a story of resilience. Victory. And healing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"GOOD GIRL is that rare find - a memoir of tough times that is neither harrowing nor saccharine but rather brutally honest, sharply intelligent, courageous, clear-sighted, and even funny. Yes, you will boil with sympathetic rage, but the smooth-as-silk writing turns every page into a pleasure and Laura Walker's indomitable spirit will make you stand up and cheer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e--Catriona McPherson, multi-award-winning author of \u003cem\u003eIn Place of Fear\u003c\/em\u003e and the bestselling Dandy Gilver series\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Laura Jensen Walker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 8985940708\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798985940701\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Laura Jensen Walker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 236\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.52lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.50d","brand":"Laura Jensen Walker","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44076165366015,"sku":"9798985940701","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e62b2a8b-d644-47c0-9b09-ae1ab145a996.jpg?v=1685463546","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/good-girl-laura-jensen-walker-9798985940701","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}