"Montgomery, Louisiana, isn't a very small town, but it's small enough (editors note: it's actually Monroe). In the 1970s, the divorce rate was nonexistent, church attendance was roughly 100 percent, and the rules of proper behavior were generally agreed upon, if often ignored....We purchased cigarettes from vending machines, rode bikes without helmets, and thought seat belts were for wimps...On the whole, I would say my hometown was entirely typical of its time and place, more confused than reactionary, a sort of stranglehold of befuddlement."
What follows in the non-fiction Miss American Pie are the diary entries - and other writing - of Margaret Sartor during her delicate, angst-filled teen years from 1972 to 1977, says a web site about the newly-published memoir.
Find a positive review in Books of The Times | 'Miss American Pie'
A Southern Girl's Dusty Diaries as a Window on the 70's, by William Grimes.
Miss American Pie / A Diary of Love, Secrets and Growing Up in the 1970's, Margaret Sartor, Illustrated. 272 pages. Bloomsbury. $19.95.
Warning: may be painfully acute for 46 year-old females from Shreveport who grew up in the comfortable class.
Sartor is also an accomplished photog. See her work at margaretsartor.com.
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