It's the 1980's. A time when teenage girls were as firm, strong and sexy as the layers of hairspray that held their big hair in place. And boys, well, they only had three things on their mind. Music. Cars. Sex. Not necessarily in that order. It was an era of MTV, Yuppies and Reaganomics. And for those who grew up in that decade, it was, in the lyrics of the song by Styx, "The Best of Times."
The. Hoosier. Girl. by Harry Sneed, takes us back to 1981 and tells the fictional memoir of Christian Hayes, a Midwestern, high school senior raised by radically religious parents, who pursues the heart, soul and yes, even the vagina, of Amanda Marrow. The Freshman Fire.
Amanda is everything Christian has been trained to stay away from. She smokes, drinks, cusses like a sailor and loves sex. In a single logosist word, she's a hoosier. White. Trash. But she's also the hottest, most intelligent and nicest girl he's ever met. Sixteen-year-old Amanda Marrow is anomaly. A bibliophile, beauty queen that's built a castle of books around her abusive past, secret pains and self-assured heart. And she's not afraid to kick your ass or blacken your eye should you decide to compromise her castle.
The. Hoosier. Girl. is the first book of Harry Sneed's trilogy, The Adventures of The Hoosier Girl and The Vagina Hunter. Harry's unique writing style, along with his wit and the wonderful way he gets into the minds of both reader and writer makes this coming-of-age story, in the age of the awesome 80s, like, for sure, a totally future best seller.
