Katie Crouch, Author of Girls in Trucks

Sarah Walters is a less-than-perfect debutante. She tries hard to follow the time-honored customs of the Charleston Camellia Society, as her mother and grandmother did, standing up straight in cotillion class and attending lectures about all the things that Camellias don't do. (Like ride with boys in pickup trucks). But Sarah can't quite ignore the barbarism just beneath all that propriety, and as soon as she can she decamps South Carolina for a life in New York City. There, she and her fellow displaced Southern friends try to make sense of city sophistication, to understand how much of their training applies to real life, and how much to the strange and rarefied world they've left behind. When life's complications become overwhelming, Sarah returns home to confront with matured eyes the motto "Once a Camellia, always a Camellia"- and to see how much fuller life can be, for good and for ill, among those who know you best. Girls in Trucks introduces a narrative voice that is astonishing and irresistible - a true, sweet, and wise voice that heralds the arrival of an exciting new talent. Author Katie Crouch grew up in Charleston, South Carolina and studied writing at Brown and ColumbiaUniversities. She lives in San Francisco.

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[26ofcrown]

i cant watch this video

this video was good kO

[evescher]

Just finished reading "Girls In Trucks" - I enjoyed every moment...except those which reminded me of my own love affairs...those were painful.

This is an insightful writer whom I will look for again and again. Good luck, Katie!

Eve Worth

[ediscoverytechwriter]

Katie, congratulations on your new book! How does one pick the right publisher? One that you researched to be looking for the type of book you were going to write? Or did you write based on titles/ books publishers were looking for- I know it is harder to write this way. It is much easier to write about something one is an expert in, has has some experience in, or feels passionate about- I believe you fall into this category. Congrats!

[canyoudigt]

I picked up this book at Barnes & Noble yesterday night and finished it this morning! From a girl who went to the College of Charleston and is from Richmond, I have to say that it really resonated with me. Fabulous read!!!

[ClintonBooks]

The reviews from inide booksellers have been nothing short of awesome. Check this book out and make sure you purchase it at a locally owned and operated book shop.