Papergirl: A Memoir
The creative adult is the child who has survived. — Ursula K. le Guin
My work in progress is a coming-of-age memoir with the working title, Papergirl. The first draft, submitted as my thesis for the MA in Creative Writing was titled, Confessions of a Teenage Newspaper Salesman.
Website: www.papergirlmemoir.com
Working description:
Donna Talarico moved. A lot. By age 13 she already had three dads and lived in more houses than years she was alive.
The coming-of-age memoir Confessions of a Teenage Newspaper Salesman explores Donna’s childhood with traveling musicians and follows her through adolescence, where a geographical leap would distance her from her adoptive father and his family. She deals with her absent mother and abusive, unemployed step-dad with an after school job selling newspaper subscriptions door-to-door. While her mother and step-dad grow a family of their own, Donna continues to find the affection and acceptance she didn’t get at home from the boys she works with.
As Donna grows up and continues on the path of always needing something or someone new, she learns the emptiness she experienced as a child is still in her heart and sets off to fill it.
(I am presently seeking representation from a literary agent.)
To see photos associated with the memoir, please check out this public facebook album.
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