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The autobiographical essays in The Girls in My Town create an unforgettable portrait of a family in Los Angeles. Reaching back to her grandmother's childhood and navigating through her own girlhood and on to the present, Angela Morales contemplates moments of loss and longing, truth and beauty, motherhood and daughterhood. She writes about her parents' appliance store and how she escaped from it, the bowling alley that provided refuge, and the strange and beautiful things she sees while riding her bike in the early mornings. She remembers fighting for equal rights for girls as a sixth grader, calling the cops when her parents fought, and listening with her mother to Helen Reddy's I Am Woman, the soundtrack of her parents' divorce. Poignant, serious, and funny, Morales's book is both a coming-of-age story and an exploration of how a writer discovers her voice.

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Kyla Garcia is an AudioFile Earphones Award-winning narrator. Born and raised in Hoboken, New Jersey, she discovered acting at the age of eight when she played Lady Macbeth in a children's adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy. She received her BFA in acting from Rutgers University. Angela Morales is the winner of the River Teeth Nonfiction Prize, 2014 for her essay collection The Girls in My Town. Her work has in the anthologies The California Prose Journal and Best American Essays, 2013, edited by Cheryl Strayed. She is a recipient of a MacDowell Fellowship, Pushcart Prize nominee, and currently teaches composition and creative writing at Glendale Community College in Southern California.

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