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Roxanne Fontana’s ‘American Girl’ brings the reader to a place that many have never visited: the life and times of a recording artist, songwriter and musician of great talent that isn’t coddled by paid employees, babysat for on the road, driven to drugs and alcohol from the pressures of success, or encouraged nor rewarded by supporters, for love or money’s sake. Fontana intentionally takes the book’s title from the hit Tom Petty song, as very early on in her journey, at 18 years old, she finds herself in a compromising situation with the budding superstar. Petty tells her to always believe in herself. Against the odds of being discovered in show biz, the discouraging and unsupportive parents, and all the bad boyfriends, she most certainly does. A book of true adventure, and a must read for the young and young at heart.
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