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397 pp.
| Simon
| November, 2010
|
TradeISBN 978-1-4424-0623-0$16.99
(3)
YA
In the late 1970s, sixteen-year-old Kelle fled an abusive home life for New York to become a model. Men took advantage of her naiveté, she endured horrible living conditions (and homelessness), and she was a witness in an infamous murder trial. James's gritty memoir is hard to put down; readers will cringe at her many tribulations and cheer her eventual successes.