Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America
New · Memoir, Nonfiction, Politics
Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America
2025 · 368 pages · Nonfiction
44
New
★ 4.00 on Goodreads · 12K ratings
≈ 9 hours to read · about 3 weeks at 30 minutes a day
Is it worth reading?
NBCC Award (Memoir) finalist (2025). 4.00★ from 12K Goodreads ratings.
By the numbers
44Must-Read Score
- Critics24 out of 100 · counts 35%+10
- Readers38 out of 100 · counts 50%+22
- Buzz72 out of 100 · counts 15%+12
Where it ranks
- #45 of the 55 politics books we rank
- #131 of the 207 memoirs and biographies we rank
- #330 of the 730 new books we rank
- #756 of the 1,344 books we rank
Shortlisted
- NBCC Award (Memoir) finalist (2025)
- Goodreads Choice (memoir autobiography) finalist (2025)
Reads as
True story, Moving
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