Girlbomb: A Halfway Homeless Memoir

Women's Biographies

Author: Janice Erlbaum

Just two hours ago, I had been heating up some lentil soup at my mom’s in Brooklyn, thinking I’d eat it and maybe read some Edith Wharton before bed. Now here I was at a runaway shelter, staring at a nun’s mustache and wondering where I was going to spend the rest of my adolescence., ,At fifteen, sick of her mom’s spineless reactions to abusive men–and afraid of her stepf….Read More

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