BODY LEAPING BACKWARDS: Memoir of a Delinquent Girlhood

The 1970's brought the upheaval of America, the lines between good and bad blurred. Stanton watches her parents separate and her new-single mother descends to shoplifting and grand larceny to support the family. Stanton slips into delinquency while being addicted to angle dust. This is a story of a self-destructive girl-hood, of a town and nation overwhelming in a time of change.