She Got Up Off the Couch: And Other Heroic Acts from Mooreland, Indiana(Paperback)
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Kimmel, Haven
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Description
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After twenty years of burrowing into the corner of the family couch, eating junk food, and reading science fiction, Indiana mother Delonda Jarvis did something that shocked her family: she went to college. Or, as her younger daughter, Haven Kimmel, writes, she "stood up, brushed away the pork rind crumbs, and escaped by the skin of her teeth." Despite having no money, no car, and a resentful husband, Delonda managed to obtain a master's degree in English. The former teenage bride also dropped one hundred pounds, learned how to drive, and became a breadwinner. But as she reclaimed herself, her marriage disintegrated.
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Product Details
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Publisher : Free Press
Published : 02/01/2007
Format : Paperback , pages 313
ISBN-10 : 074328500X
ISBN-13 : 9780743285001
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