Paper girl : a memoir of home and family in a fractured America / Beth Macy.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Macy, Beth, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Macy, Beth--Childhood and youth.
• Women journalists--Biography.
• Families--Ohio--Urbana.
• Community life--Ohio--Urbana.
• Social change--Ohio--Urbana.
• Small cities--Social conditions.
• Urbana (Ohio)--Social conditions.
• United States--Social conditions--21st century.
• Small cities.
• 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