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Johnny's Girl By Kim Rich

Johnny's Girl by Kim Rich


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Johnny's Girl: A Daughter's Memoir of Growing Up In Alaska's Underworld by Kim Rich

Johnny's Girl the nationally acclaimed memoir of growing up in Alaska's underworld as the only child of gambler John F. Johnny Rich and exotic dancer, Frances Ginger Rich. It chronicles Alaska's mean streets and her parent's tragic lives that were cut short.

Kim Rich was an ordinary girl trapped in an extraordinary childhood, someone who dreamed of going to parties and getting good grades while living in an after-hours hell of gamblers, pimps, and con men. She longed for normalcy, yet she was inescapably her father's child, and she had no choice but to grow up fast. Her mother, who suffered from mental illness, was a stripper and B-girl: her father was a major player in the underworld of Anchorage, Alaska in the sixties, a city flush with newfound oil money.
Only after her father was gruesomely murdered when she was 15, and Kim became a journalist, was she able to fill in the missing pieces of one American dream gone horribly wrong. Kim's true story is a tale of a woman's search for her parent's secrets. What she finds is both shocking and tragic, but in the end she's able to discover her true self amid the remnants of her parents' lost lives.

Johnny's Girl Reviews

This memoir poses the question, 'Which offenses from our childhood are forgivable and which ones are not?' [Rich's] book is...the story of a gutsy child's survival, the kind that should go straight to the heart.

---New York Times Book Review


Rich does an amazing job of searching out legal and hospital records, plus letters and diaries of her dead parents, and of interviewing cops, lawyers, former B-girls, and family members,---all in a effort to lay to rest the ghosts within her...Compelling. ---Kirkus Review

About Kim Rich

Born in Hollywood, raised in Anchorage, Alaska, Kim Rich has an MFA degree in writing from Columbia University, and has taught at Alaska Pacific University. She now lives in the lower 48, outside of Alaska. A Normal Life is the follow-up to her critically acclaimed memoir, Johnny's Girl: A Daughter's Memoir of Growing Up In Alaska's Underworld.

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CIN0882405241G
9780882405247
0882405241
Johnny's Girl: A Daughter's Memoir of Growing Up In Alaska's Underworld by Kim Rich
Used - Good
Paperback
Graphic Arts Center Publishing Co
19991014
304
N/A
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