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Search - Look at You Now: My Journey from Shame to Strength

Look at You Now My Journey from Shame to Strength
Author: Liz Pryor

For readers of "Orange Is the New Black" and "The Glass Castle, "a riveting memoir about a lifelong secret and a girl finding strength in the most unlikely place — In 1979, Liz Pryor is a seventeen-year-old girl from a good family in the wealthy Chicago suburbs. Halfway through her senior year of high school, she discovers that she is pregnant a ... more »fact her parents are determined to keep a secret from her friends, siblings, and communityforever. One snowy January day, after driving across three states, her mother drops her off at what Liz thinks is a Catholic home for unwed mothers but which is, in truth, a locked government-run facility for delinquent and impoverished pregnant teenage girls.

In the cement-block residence, Liz is alone and terrified, a fish out of water a girl from a privileged, sheltered background living amid tough, street-savvy girls who come from the foster care system or juvenile detention. But over the next six months, isolated and in involuntary hiding from everyone she knows, Liz develops a surprising bond with the other girls and begins to question everything she once held true. Told with tenderness, humor, and an open heart, "Look at You Now" is a deeply moving story about the most vulnerable moments in our lives and how a willingness to trust ourselves can permanently change who we are and how we see the world.

Advance praise for "Look at You Now"

Engrossing . . . Readers will swiftly be drawn into the author s compassionate retelling of her teen pregnancy her fear, shame, regret, joy, and even her forgiveness of her parents for sending her away. This coming-of-age memoir is authentic and unforgettable. " Publishers Weekly"

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Pryor s refusal to bury the truth of her experiences is the greatest strength of her book. Her honesty about a youthful error and desire to let that honesty define the rest of her life are both uplifting and inspiring. An unsentimental yet moving coming-of-age memoir. " Kirkus Reviews"

I started reading this book thinking it was a compelling, honest, sometimes funny, sometimes poignant look at the world of teenage pregnancy, and knowing it would offer an inside look at the places where girls used to be hidden away until their babies came. I finished it damp-eyed and understanding that "Look at You Now" is much more than that. It is a story about how family dynamics work. It is about how wrenching it is to give away something born of your flesh, even if you know it s the right decision. It s about how much we can learn from people very much different from us. Most of all, it is a subtle, graceful story about how sometimes the worst things in our lives work best to shape our characters into something shining and true, something that will serve us for the rest of our lives. Liz Pryor says she will never forget the girls she shared that time of her life with. I will never forget this book. I really, really loved it. Elizabeth Berg, author of "The Dream Lover"

Liz Pryor s story is shocking, moving, riveting, and, ultimately, inspiring. She writes like a natural, can balance humor and sorrow perfectly, and in "Look at You Now, "has written a pitch-perfect memoir. Darin Strauss, author of "Half a Life" "From the Hardcover edition.""

ISBN-13: 9780812987546
ISBN-10: 0812987543
Publication Date: 3/7/2017
Pages: 288
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Publisher: Random House Trade
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 17
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Biographies & Memoirs >> Specific Groups >> Women
Biographies & Memoirs >> Memoirs
Parenting & Relationships >> Parenting >> Teenagers

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