"Laurie Boyle Crompton's coming of age in rural Pennsylvania and the New York City are is the 1970s and 1980s was anything but idyllic. . . . Crompton takes you along as she navigates relationships, plays the happy family at church despite discord at home, manages her mother's ambitions and her father's alcoholism, struggles with her self-image and desperately tries to fit in. . . . 'The Demin Diaries' follows Crompton's journey through disordered eating and sexual assault to acceptance and recovery"--Provided by publisher.
