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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An acclaimed journalist tries to understand how she escaped her small town in Arkansas while her brilliant friend could not, and, in the process, illuminates the unemployment, drug abuse, sexism, and evangelicalism killing poor, rural white women all over America. The Forgotten Girls is much more than a memoir its the unflinching story of rural women trying to live in the most rugged, ultra-religious, and left-behind places in America.Beth Macy, author of Read more