{"product_id":"girls-in-trucks-paperback","title":"Girls in Trucks - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKatie Crouch\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSarah Walters is a less-than-perfect debutante. She tries hard to follow the time-honored customs of the Charleston Camellia Society, as her mother and grandmother did, standing up straight in cotillion class and attending lectures about all the things that Camellias don't do. (Like ride with boys in pickup trucks.) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e But Sarah can't quite ignore the barbarism just beneath all that propriety, and as soon as she can she decamps South Carolina for a life in New York City. There, she and her fellow displaced Southern friends try to make sense of city sophistication, to understand how much of their training applies to real life, and how much to the strange and rarefied world they've left behind. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e When life' \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003es complications become overwhelming, Sarah returns home to confront with matured eyes the motto \"Once a Camellia, always a Camellia\" -- and to see how much fuller life can be, for good and for ill, among those who know you best. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eGirls in Trucks\u003c\/i\u003e introduces an irresistable, sweet, and wise voice that heralds the arrival of an exciting new talent.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKatie Crouch\u003c\/b\u003e's writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eGlamour\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe London Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMcSweeney's\u003c\/i\u003e. She received her M.F.A. at Columbia University, and was awarded a Sewanee Walter Dakin Fellowship and a MacDowell Fellowship. She lives in San Francisco with a man, a dog, and a baby.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 01, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42131246940240,"sku":"9780316002127","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/9540\/0016\/files\/OszQFDjZYq9780316002127.webp?v=1773589873","url":"https:\/\/palm-malen-gift-shop-pmrc.myshopify.com\/products\/girls-in-trucks-paperback","provider":"Palm Malen Gift Shop -PMRC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}