Excerpt from The Forgotten Girls by Monica Potts, plus links to reviews, author biography & more

When I began my investigation into what was happening to women like Darci, I didn't realize how personal and emotional this journey would become, that it would take me through layers of long-buried grief and the pain of watching a loved one fall apart. Instead, as I set out, my plan was first to remember how Darci and I had lived as children, when both our young lives had held so much promise. Then I would retrace all that had happened in the years after I left and she stayed, mapping the steps that had taken us further apart. I would find the answers to all my questions in the space that had grown between us.

From the book The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America by Monica Potts. Copyright © 2023 by Monica Potts. Published by Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.