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Title: Good Writing, Bad Parenting
Review: When Martha Tod Dudman was a teen-ager in the Sixties she took drugs, had sex, stole cars, and got kicked out of school. In the Nineties her 15-year-old daughter, Augusta, takes drugs, has sex, steals cars and runs away from school. Gee, go figure. This gracefully written book takes you on a self-centered trip through Martha's incompetent parenting. The only times you are not frustrated with this moronic mother is when she describes her escapist treks up and down the mountains of Maine. She has no control over Augusta but she does little to assert control either. Beyond the talented writing there is little to recommend this book.
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