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Paper girl : a memoir of home and family in a fractured America / Beth Macy.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection HN57 .M263 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Macy, Beth, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Macy, Beth--Childhood and youth.
- Macy, Beth.
- Women journalists--Biography.
- Women journalists.
- Families--Ohio--Urbana.
- Families.
- Community life--Ohio--Urbana.
- Community life.
- Social change--Ohio--Urbana.
- Social change.
- Small cities--Social conditions.
- Small cities.
- Urbana (Ohio)--Social conditions.
- Urbana (Ohio).
- United States--Social conditions--21st century.
- United States.
- towns.
- Genre:
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 353 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Penguin Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- A deeply personal and eye-opening memoir from journalist Beth Macy, exploring how her once-thriving Ohio hometown unraveled over four decades. Blending family history, reporting, and social insight, Macy traces the loss of community, the rise of anger and division, and the human cost of economic and cultural decline in small-town America.
- Contents:
- Precipice
- Trust
- Bubbles
- Descent
- Migrations
- Homecoming
- Strangers
- Tribalism
- Red-pilled
- Interventions
- Mediation
- Ascension
- Geniality
- Grace
- The price of ignorance.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographic references (pages [315]-330) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Beardwood Fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9780593656730
- 0593656733
- OCLC:
- 1484605004
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