Amy’s Reviews > The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America > Status Update

I didn’t like this book at the beginning and I realized why about a quarter of the way through it’s because it reminded me very much of my own childhood, teens, and 20s. A really painful read that challenges the idea of rural girls and women having limited access to private colleges and Ivy League schools because they don’t think they’re smart enough or because of money. Motherhood. Drugs. Very deep!