成人快手

In Monica Potts' powerful account of friendship, ambition & lost promise in rural America she uncovers past secrets & discovers that trauma & motherhood cross the generations. Kelly Burke reads.

Monica Potts is an acclaimed journalist and here she sets out to understand generational cycles of poverty and hardship that continue to blight the lives of rural communities in contemporary America. At the same time, she reconnects with her childhood friend, Darci, and the big economic and social questions she's asking become personal. Darci, her talented and brilliant friend was now homeless, jobless and an addict. Her fate could have been Monica's, and so begins a journey to find out why the two women's lives took such different paths.

Abridged by Julian Wilkinson
Produced by Elizabeth Allard