Downeast : five Maine girls and the unseen story of rural America /

Washington County, Maine. Willow, Vivian, Mckenna, Audrey and Josie are teenage girls caught between tradition and transformation in this remote region. For four years Georges followed their journeys of heartbreak and hope in uncertain times, the pain and joy of life in a region whose rugged beauty...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Georges, Gigi (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Teenage girls > Maine > Washington County. Young women > Maine > Washington County. Washington County (Me.) > Rural conditions. Washington County (Me.) > Economic conditions. SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Rural. SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies. SOCIAL SCIENCE > Poverty & Homelessness.

Table of Contents:

Prologue
Daybreak. The downeast life ; Beginnings ; Girls gone fishing ; Pillars ; Reverence ; On the horizon
Dilemmas. The game changers ; Frannie ; Half-hearted tragedy ; Upwind ; Digging for gold
Across the bridge. Home ; Adrift ; Searching ; Moneyball ; Soaring
The way life should be. Powered by lobsters ; Beyond the Sunrise Trail ; Something better ; Regaining faith ; Fighting back ; Anchored ; Found
Epilogue.