Laurie Boyle Crompton

The Denim Diaries: A Memoir -- Laurie Boyle Crompton, Paperback

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Laurie Boyle Crompton's coming of age in rural Pennsylvania and the New York City area in the 1970s and 1980s was anything but idyllic. In moving verse accompanied by diary-esque sketches, Crompton takes you along as she navigates relationships, plays the happy family at church despite discord at home, manages her mother's ambitions and her father's alcoholism, struggles with her self-image, and desperately tries to fit in at school by squeezing into too-tight designer denim.

Both heartwarming and heartbreaking, The Denim Diaries follows Crompton's journey through disordered eating and sexual assault to acceptance and recovery. Her vivid poems recall the highs and lows of a life filled with hardship and joy alike. At times both harrowing and humorous, this memoir brings new perspective to the importance of self-love and finding hope in the darkest of times.



Author: Laurie Boyle Crompton
Publisher: Zest Books (Tm)
Published: 11/14/2023
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.96lbs
ISBN: 9798765604885
Age Range: 13-18

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 11/01/2023 pg. 57

Product Tags:

Biography & Autobiography, Eating Disorders & Body Image, Grades 6-8, Laurie Boyle Crompton, Paperback, Poetry, Social Topics, Women, Young Adult, Young Adult Misc. Nonfiction, Young Adult Nonfiction, Zest Books (Tm)

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