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Can I read The Girl Factory : a Memoir on EtoBox?
The Girl Factory : a Memoir by Karen Dietrich is a biography available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Girl Factory : a Memoir about?
It’s 1985 in a small factory town near Pittsburgh. Eight-year-old Karen’s parents are lifelong workers at the Anchor Glass plant, where one Saturday, an employee goes on a shooting spree, killing four supervisors, then himself. This event splits the young girl’s life open, and like her mother, she begins to seek comfort in obsessive rituals and superstitions. This beautifully evocative memoir chronicles the next fourteen years, as Karen moves through girlhood, adolescence, and young adulthood. I
Who reads The Girl Factory : a Memoir?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Karen Dietrich
- Publisher
- Guilford, Connecticut: skirt!, An imprint of Globe Pequot Press
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781493000654
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- Memoir, History, Biography
- Rating
- 3.25 / 5 (154 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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