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Cinder Girl sits in the rarest class of memoir a towering literary triumph which melds searing and tragic personal history with an incredible story of resilience, hope, and civic success. Growing up on welfare, food stamps, and Greyhound buses, Holly Thompson Rehder quit school at fifteen to help take care of her mother and younger sister after a devastating car accident. Getting married and pregnant soon thereafter, like so many other young girls caught in the poverty-cycle, Holly decided that the life she had been born into was not what she intended to give her child. But unlike others who wind up mired in a lifetime of poverty, dysfunction, and despair, Holly used her resourcefulness, faith, and sheer stubborn American grit to fight her way out of the gutter. Two decades later she was a successful businesswoman. And today, she is a rising political star who serves as an inspiration to young women across the state of Missouriand indeed, the entire nationall while never forgetting where she came from. She worked her butt off to help so many others born into seemingly helpless circumstances. As a rare lawmaker who speaks candidly from raw personal experience, in Cinder Girl , Rehd

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Author

Holly Thompson Rehder

Publisher

Bombardier Books

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9781637581216

Category

nonfiction