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Good Girls Don't
Good Girls Don't | Mara Wilson
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In this candid and illuminating Scribd Original, writer-actor Mara Wilson navigates the good-girl-versus- bad-girl tropes from early childhood through adolescence and teen life. Good Girls Don’t is a coming-of- age memoir that bravely examines both the friendships Wilson formed as a child actor in Hollywood and the complex family relationships that shaped her.
Looking back on her experiences on and off the set of notable family-friendly films including Matilda, Mrs. Doubtfire, Miracle on 34th Street, and A Simple Wish, Wilson shares the challenges and joys of growing up in the public eye while enduring the very personal grief of losing her mother to cancer when she was just eight. She describes periods of acting out to assuage her own sadness, as her contentious grandmother stepped in and her hardworking, grief-stricken father grappled with raising a young daughter and her four siblings.
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3.5/5

I read Where Am I Now a few years ago, and I really enjoyed Mara Wilsons' return to look at some parts of her life, especially the difficult time right after her mother died, that she wasn't ready to share in her previous book. She talks a lot about the pressure on both her specifically and child stars in general to be a certain way and the affect it had on her. It's a quick, fun read.

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ShananigansReads I really need to stop typing these things on my phone cause the typos are horrendous. 2y
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