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Cinderland: A Memoir

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A riveting literary debut about the price of keeping quiet

Amy Jo Burns grew up in Mercury, Pennsylvania, an industrial town humbled by the steel collapse of the 1980s. As a substitute of the construction booms and twelve-hour shifts her parents’ generation had known, the Mercury Amy Jo knew was once marred by empty houses, old strip mines, and vacant lots. It wasn’t somewhat a ghost town—only because many of us had no choice but to stay.
 
The year Burns turned ten, this sleepy town all at once aroused from sleep. Howard Lotte, its beloved piano teacher, was once accused of sexually assaulting his female students. A number of the countless girls questioned, only seven came forward. For telling the truth, the town ostracized these girls and accused them of trying to smear a good man’s reputation. As for the remaining girls—well, they were smarter. They lied. Burns was once one of them.
 
But this sort of lie has its own consequences. Against a backdrop of fire and steel, shame and redemption, Burns tells of the boys she ran from and toward, the friends she abandoned, and the endless performances she gave to please a town that never trusted girls in the first place.
 
This is the story of growing up in a town that both worshipped and sacrificed its youth—a town that believed being a good girl meant being a quiet one—and the long road Burns took toward forgiving her ten-year-old self. Cinderland is an elegy to that young girl’s innocence, in addition to a praise song to the curative powers of breaking a long silence. 

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