For National Public Radio, Maureen Corrigan named her top ten books of 2012.
One title on the list:
Tupelo Hassman's girlchild
The ragged but resilient young narrator of Girlchild, a striking debut novel by Tupelo Hassman, also tells readers a thing or two about what it's like to grow up without safety nets. Rory Dawn Hendrix lives in a Reno, Nev., trailer park where you'd have a better chance





