{"id":2308,"date":"2009-02-10T06:00:48","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T12:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=2308"},"modified":"2009-02-07T15:17:28","modified_gmt":"2009-02-07T21:17:28","slug":"girls-in-trucks-by-katie-crouch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/girls-in-trucks-by-katie-crouch\/","title":{"rendered":"Girls in Trucks by Katie Crouch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/216.125.140.44\/uhtbin\/cgisirsi\/x\/0\/0\/57\/5?searchdata1=ocn157023417&amp;user_id=davmainweb\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"231\" height=\"349\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2373 alignleft\" title=\"girls-in-trucks2\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/girls-in-trucks2.jpg?resize=231%2C349&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"girls-in-trucks2\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/girls-in-trucks2.jpg?w=231&amp;ssl=1 231w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/girls-in-trucks2.jpg?resize=198%2C300&amp;ssl=1 198w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/a>&#8220;<em>Sweet coming-of-age saga meets Sex-in-the-City.<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This single phrase describes Crouch&#8217;s debut novel <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/216.125.140.44\/uhtbin\/cgisirsi\/x\/0\/0\/57\/5?searchdata1=ocn157023417&amp;user_id=davmainweb\" target=\"_blank\">Girls in Trucks<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, in a nutshell.\u00a0 What starts out as a pleasant story about a young Southern debutante, full of all the appropriate adolescent angst, suddenly and surprisingly turns into a slightly tragic sitcom version of the once popular TV show.\u00a0 I actually liked the first part better, though the novel is really a collection of stories pieced together in the appearance of a novel.\u00a0 Still, this will prove to be hugely popular, especially with the twenty-something crowd, \u00a0 as the author effectively captures not only the charming Charleston, South Carolina dialogue and decorum, but also replays the New York City scenes with a saucy wit that leaves the reader both in laughter and in tears.\u00a0 Warning:\u00a0 it doesn&#8217;t end at all the way you would expect it to &#8212;\u00a0 you&#8217;ll just have to read the book to find out for yourself!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Sweet coming-of-age saga meets Sex-in-the-City.&#8220; This single phrase describes Crouch&#8217;s debut novel Girls in Trucks, in a nutshell.\u00a0 What starts out as a pleasant story about a young Southern debutante, full of all the appropriate adolescent angst, suddenly and surprisingly turns into a slightly tragic sitcom version of the once<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/girls-in-trucks-by-katie-crouch\/\">[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[266,440,438,439,109],"class_list":["post-2308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-staff-picks","tag-coming-of-age","tag-debutantes","tag-new-york","tag-south","tag-teens"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-Be","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2308"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2377,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308\/revisions\/2377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}