Bad Girl: Confessions Of A Teenage Delinquent - Softcover

Vona, Abigail

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1590710517 ISBN 13: 9781590710517

Publisher: Rugged Land, 2005

Synopsis

With adolescent swagger, BAD GIRL tells the unnerving story of an outlaw young life that must be broken, reshaped and finally redeemed.
At fifteen Abigail Vona was Involved with boys, booze, drugs and stealing anything and everything she could lay her hands on. She was spiraling out of control. Helpless to control his daughter, Mr. Vona committed Abigail to Peninusla Village, a controversial treatment facility for “behavior modification” in Louisville, Tennessee. No sooner did she walk through the door she was put on suicide watch which lasted for 3 months. She was not allowed to dress in more than a hospital gown until she graduated to “level-three lockdown” and “wilderness boot camp” where she stayed for nearly a year. And though it all started as a nightmare, it eventually became her salvation.

About this title

About the Author:

ABIGAIL VONA is from West Hartford, Connecticut. After being released from Peninsula Village, she attended the Foreman School in Litchfield, Connecticut, for ADD and dyslexic students and graduated in May 2003. She is currently taking classes at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

From Publishers Weekly:

The title of Vona's memoir of her stay in a behavior rehabilitation facility for troubled adolescents is far more provocative than her book's content. Fifteen-year-old Vona's father commits her to Tennessee's Peninsula Village for the usual transgressions of angst-ridden teens: shoplifting, drug use, lying and running away from home. Initially, Vona rebels against the institute's stringent rules, only to find that compliance is key to survival. Stripped of the most basic liberties, Vona takes several weeks to make sense of Peninsula Village's seemingly illogical rules. But she earns privileges as the year progresses and predictably learns the value of trust, respect and responsibility. To distinguish her book from the Girl, Interrupted genre of teenage mental patient–cum–diarist stories, Vona juxtaposes progress notes from her therapy sessions and comments from the institution's staff with her own unenlightened, grouchy account of recovery and rehabilitation. The result is jarring. The notes' unsentimental insights will prompt readers to reconsider their opinions of Vona: in trying to reconcile the differing versions of her behavior and attitude, readers may doubt Vona's veracity in her dual roles as patient and storyteller. More, Vona's unpolished narrative voice relies too heavily on the use of the notes to propel the narrative forward.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Rugged Land
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1590710517
• ISBN 13: 9781590710517
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 267