Good Girl: A Memoir

Informed with uncooked, rugged honesty, this heartrending memoir from journalist Sarah Tomlinson recounts her unconventional upbringing and coming-of-age as coloured through her advanced dating together with her father.

Sarah Tomlinson was once born on January 29, 1976, in a farmhouse in Freedom, Maine. After years of tried kin lifestyles in Boston, her father’s playing habit and damaged supplies led her mom to pool her assets with 5 different households to shop for a hundred acres of land in Maine and reunite together with her university boyfriend. Sarah may spend nearly all of her formative years on “The Land” with rare, yet coveted, visits from her father, who—as a hitchhiking, acid-dropping, wannabe mystic grew to become taxi driver—was not anything wanting a rock celebrity in her eyes.

Propelled out of her bohemian upbringing to hunt the large lifestyles she equated together with her father, Sarah entered university at fifteen, the place a college taking pictures additional advanced her quest for a feeling of defense. whereas setting up herself as a journalist and rock critic on either coasts, Sarah’s father endured to swerve out and in of her existence, development and re-breaking their courting, and fracturing Sarah’s self belief and feel of self. during this unforgettable memoir, Sarah conveys the darkish comedy in her quest to fix the guts her father broke.

Bittersweet, sincere, and finally redemptive, Good lady takes an insightful look at what occurs while the folks we adore unconditionally are the folk who disappoint us the main, and the way time, introspection, and popularity may also help us heal.

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In some way I had propelled myself out of my typical, small existence to sit down with this guy I popular. Judah introduced out a bottle of Maker’s Mark and ordered Alyssa to the kitchen for ice. I watched them heavily, nonetheless uncertain approximately their dating and what it intended for me, made up our minds to speak with the boys, no longer serve with the ladies. And but, I wasn’t silky and good prepare like she was once, and it appeared attainable he was once going to ship me away whilst the medication ran out, with the promise of tickets to his subsequent Boston express. the sunshine round us used to be Southern California gold. i used to be very, very excessive. “Maybe you women may still take your tops off,” Judah stated. “Okay,” Alyssa stated, laughing, immediately topless. Her dermis was once caramel, and her breasts have been lovely, and he or she had a bit potbelly that made her glance more youthful than she was once. I checked out Judah for an extended second. “I’m going to maintain my bra on,” I stated. He laughed. “Okay,” he stated. Slowly, embarrassed, I opened my blouse, button by way of button. Judah watched. “Now move stand over there together,” he stated, pointing. “Let’s take an image. ” I passed him the disposable digital camera from my handbag. “Hug each one other,” he stated. Alyssa knew precisely what to do and wrapped her satiny dermis round me. She used to be a lot shorter than i used to be and her face nestled close to my breasts, certain of their black bra. We have been either nonetheless donning our sun shades. I smoked my cigarette, not able to include the wolfish grin roaring up within me. So he wasn’t going to ship me domestic finally. yet I didn’t are looking to percentage him. After he snapped photographs, I kneeled on the desk back. Judah looked as if it would settle for this. round 3 within the afternoon, Alyssa went to sleep in his room. “Why don’t you slip into whatever more well-off? ” he stated. I smiled at him and him towards the kitchen. He reached into the dryer and passed me a couple of black boxer briefs. I held his eyes with mine as I unsnapped my button and slowly slid down my fly. He stepped with reference to me and helped me tug down the stiff cloth of my denims. My epidermis used to be immediately sizzling. I leaned into him. He didn’t contact me wherever other than the place his arm rotated my hips, which made it even warmer. “Now placed those on,” he stated, his voice low and raspy. I felt like i'll get off, simply status there via his dryer with him. with no pondering two times, I him open air in my bra and his undies at 3 within the afternoon on a Saturday. It was once an ideal la day. i used to be dimly conscious of a minimum of one neighbor in a close-by backyard, yet every thing outdoors our beautiful, gauzy cocoon used to be far-off from me. till i peeked up and used to be instantly choked with satisfaction: the mythic white letters of the Hollywood signal topped the hillside within the distance. the affection I’d felt for l. a. all through my stopover at crested to an ideal happy glow. He held me on his lap and had me inhale nitrous, which washed me up right into a distant a part of myself the place it felt like not anything undesirable had ever occurred. “Have you ever been fucked by means of a guy on Viagra? ” he acknowledged. I shook my head no, now not telling him i'll approximately count number the entire males I’d ever had intercourse with on fingers.

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