The Forgotten Girls by Monica Potts

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The Forgotten Girls by Monica Potts: Book of the Week: Ep 2 - Church and religion in rural America

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Reflections on religiosity in rural America, and going 'boy crazy' in the teenage years.

In Monica Potts' book on friendship and lost promise in rural America she reflects on the role of religion, recalls her teens and her 'boy crazy friends'. Kelly Burke reads.

In Monica Potts' powerful book about friendship, and lost promise in 21st century rural America she reflects on the role of religion, and recalls becoming a teenager in the 1990s,and her 'boy crazy' friends. Kelly Burke reads.

Monica Potts is an acclaimed journalist and here she sets out to understand generational cycles of poverty and hardship that continue to blight the lives of rural communities in contemporary America.  At the same time, she reconnects with her childhood friend, Darci, and the big economic and social questions she's asking become personal.  Darci, her talented and brilliant friend was now homeless, jobless and an addict. Her fate could have been Monica's, and so begins a journey to find out why the two women's lives took such different paths.

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Produced by Elizabeth Allard

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