Girls Like Us, Randi Pink
Girls Like Us, Randi Pink
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Girls Like Us

Author: Randi Pink

Narrator: Ja'Air Bush

Unabridged: 7 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/22/2022


Synopsis

In Girls Like Us, Randi Pink masterfully weaves four lives into a larger story–as timely as ever–about a woman's right to choose her future.

Four teenage girls. Four different stories. What they all have in common is that they're dealing with unplanned pregnancies.

In 1972 rural Georgia, Izella is wise beyond her years, but burdened with the responsibility of her older sister, Ola, who has found out she's pregnant. Their young neighbor, Missippi, is also pregnant, but doesn't fully understand the extent of her predicament. When her father sends her to Chicago to give birth, she meets the final narrator, Susan, who is white and the daughter of an anti-choice senator.

About Randi Pink

Randi Pink grew up in the South and attended a mostly white high school. She lives with her husband and their two rescue dogs in Birmingham, Alabama, where she works for a branch of National Public Radio. Into White was her fiction debut.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Douglas on July 03, 2013

A marvelous book about extraordinary women. An inspiration to all girls to be all that they can be.......more

Goodreads review by David on July 03, 2019

Mixture of interesting and boring vignettes.......more

Goodreads review by George on February 26, 2009

From the remarkable and painful stage fright of Joan Baez, to Benazir Bhutto's becoming "the first Bhotto woman to be released from a life spent in perpetual twilight", to a 12-year old Latvian girl's (Agate Nesaule) determination to teach herself English be comparing an English language version of......more

Goodreads review by Stacy on September 07, 2016

I first read this when I was gifted it in middle school. I remember enjoying a lot more than I enjoyed this reread. Some of the stories were enjoyable but some of them were kind of dry and less readable. Some of the stories were also rather unrelatable in that they were about struggles of young girl......more