Didn't relate to me, I felt nothing

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	• The Only Girl in the Car Kathy Dobie Delta, 2004 - 240 pages average customer review:based on 38 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

The Only Girl in the Car

I thoroughly enjoyed this book and have recommended it to friends who have teenage daughters. In the future I will let my daughter read it. Although it does have a lot of sexual content it is a very honest account of a young girl growing up. Definately would recommend to teens and mothers of teens as well.

Didn't relate to me, I felt nothing

First of all, I'd like to say what the author went through was a terrible experience. The way she wrote was beautiful..the words are beautifully descriptive. She manages to bring her surroundings, the people, and the things alive with her wonderfully deep and thought provoking words.

However, I didnt' relate to this nor did I feel much about this. I was left a little confused and even a little angry. It describes her childhood and how she always liked attention. I felt that it never really explained why she needed to sleep with so many men or why she gave herself so freely. Her parents seemed loving and kind and caring. Somehow I think she said she wanted mens attention bc she never got her mothers or something along those lines, which still made no sense to me. She had 5 other brothers and sisters and they didn't really act this way.

I felt like after the incident happened, she didn't really care so much about the fact that she got raped (even though she said Okay, she really didn't want to) or the fact that her body was misused and abused by several men. It felt like all she cared about was the people who called her names and harrassed her or something, and all she wanted back was Jimmy's attention.

It seemed like it never quite sunk in what exactly happened to her and she never really showed any remorse or anger or any other emotion towards her attackers.

Also, from when she was barely 13 men seemed to be attracted to her like an ant to candy...without her ever really doing anything. This felt kind of unbelievable to me that so many grown men would risk everything and stop a 13-14 yr old on the street and want to sleep with her..and she'd let him. Maybe the place she lived in was perv city? I can see this happening once or something but it seemed like whenever she'd go out truckers and grown men would just follow her and stalk her wanting to sleep with her.

I was left feeling empty and even angry bc she gave herself so freely w/o thinking of consequences.

I applaud the author for having the courage to write this and the way it is written is beautiful.

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The Only Girl in the Car

Bookworm and dreamer, Kathy was a young girl with a tender heart, an adventurer?s spirit, and a child?s terrible confusion about her proper place in the world. As the oldest daughter in a family of six children, she seemed trapped in her role as Big Sister and Mommy?s Helper. Then, one day, teetering on the brink of adolescence, hormones surging, she heard someone call her ?cheesecake,? and suddenly saw her path.

?Cheesecake, jailbait, sex kitten?--the very words seemed to be ?doors opening? to a splendid new self. But from the moment she decides to lose her virginity and reels in her prey, a ?full-grown man,? fourteen-year-old Kathy is headed for trouble. One cold, raw March night some months later, parked in a car with four boys on the outskirts of her small suburban town, she finds it.

Though she could never have foreseen the outcome of that night, the ?boys in the car could just as well have been Gypsies foretelling my future,? she writes. Girls who break the rules in small towns like the one she lived in are expected to pay a very high price for their transgressions--and she did.

And yet...this young girl, as scrappy a protagonist as any in our literature, manages to transform her fate. The story of how she came to be in that car, and how she stepped out of it forever altered, to be sure, yet not forever damaged, is the theme of this extraordinary coming-of-age tale.

From the Hardcover edition.

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