Girls in Trucks - Katie Crouch

Girls in Trucks

By Katie Crouch

  • Release Date: 2008-04-07
  • Genre: Fiction & Literature
Score: 3.5
3.5
From 83 Ratings

Description

Sarah Walters is a less-than-perfect debutante. She tries hard to follow the time-honored customs of the Charleston Camellia Society, as her mother and grandmother did, standing up straight in cotillion class and attending lectures about all the things that Camellias don't do. (Like ride with boys in pickup trucks.)

But Sarah can't quite ignore the barbarism just beneath all that propriety, and as soon as she can she decamps South Carolina for a life in New York City. There, she and her fellow displaced Southern friends try to make sense of city sophistication, to understand how much of their training applies to real life, and how much to the strange and rarefied world they've left behind.

When life'

s complications become overwhelming, Sarah returns home to confront with matured eyes the motto "Once a Camellia, always a Camellia" -- and to see how much fuller life can be, for good and for ill, among those who know you best.

Girls in Trucks introduces an irresistable, sweet, and wise voice that heralds the arrival of an exciting new talent.

Reviews

  • didnt finish

    2
    By Huppwife
    it really annoys me to pay goid money and feel i wasted it. i did not finish this book. i skipped to the back to write this review in the hopes it will keep someone else from wasting their time and money
  • Touchingly real

    5
    By DrLJL
    Sharp. Witty. Poignant.
  • Girls in Trucks

    2
    By BamaJamma
    Quick, easy read but I didn't love it. I found it hard to not only identify with the main character but to feel sympathy for her.
  • Fun and easy

    5
    By Music Love <3
    Enjoyed every second! Related so much and didn't want it to end! Grab it while you can!
  • Blah

    2
    By SarahCunning
    Not at all impressed. The author's voice/style changed mid book and there was not a lot of flow.