Status
Available
Call number
Collection
Publication
Picador (2004), Edition: Reprint, 432 pages
Description
"Tells the life stories of ... six teen mothers whom Joanna Lipper first met in 1999 when they were all enrolled in the Teen Parent Program in Pittsfield, Massachusetts ... They shared with her the daily reality of their lives and their experiences growing up in the economically depressed postindustrial landscape of Pittsfield."--Jacket.
User reviews
LibraryThing member janey47
This was an interesting set of new information to add to the stuff I've been reading on the working poor, but I just feel like the group studied was too small to give me a sense of what's really out there. I actually kept thinking of the book All Alone in the World: Children of the Incarcerated, by
Show More
Nell Bernstein, because the issues of teen pregnancy plus a ton of other issues are dealt with in there really well. If you have to choose, choose the latter. Show Less
Subjects
Language
Original language
English
Physical description
432 p.; 5.5 inches
ISBN
0312422237 / 9780312422233
Similar in this library
Call number
7.31.2 L5 g