| #2545073 in Books | 1999-01-21 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | .89 x6.26 x9.32l, | File type: PDF | 231 pages||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| A very interesting read|By JC|I heard the author on This American Life about a month ago about expatriates living in Paris and instantly fell in love with her laugh and personality. When I found out she had written a book, I immediately jumped on to buy it. After my purchase, I googled her name and came across her Wiki page. I was stunned to see in the first line her birth dat|From Publishers Weekly|This rather unstructured memoir certainly contains high drama, but it doesn't quite succeed in illuminating the larger social issues?race, class, education, identity?to which it implicitly points. McDonald, the gifted child of an "old-fash
An inspiring story of a black woman's coming-of-age.
Project Girl is the powerful story of a black woman with a genius IQ whose coming-of-age in a Brooklyn public housing project locks her into a struggle with the growing poverty, drug abuse, and violence of a neighborhood in decline.
Janet McDonald grew up in a family in pursuit of the American Dream, a dream that seemed within easy reach of the gifted student. In school, McDonald soared past h...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Project Girl | Janet McDonald.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.
