Buffeted by a cheery outlook, Gertie McDowell, a naïve young girl from Turkey Roost, Kentucky, pens her diary-a series of bizarre misadventures that take her from starring on a foot fetish site in Los Angeles to hustling bets as a mechanical bull rider in Texas.
From serving a stint in West Virginia's Alderson Prison, because she trusted the wrong kind of fella, to getting sold into white slavery.
But perhaps her crowning mishap is seeking the ping-pong championship of San Francisco's Chinatown-all while hiding out in the Witness Protection Program.
A zany yet tender book that will have you laughing out loud.
Sand Hill Review Press The ping-pong champion of chinatown, paperback/james hanna
