It wasn't all fun and it wasn't all about sex with celebrities. Instead of what Kirkus refers to as a "laundry list" of conquests in other groupie books, Sally tells what it was like being a girl from an abusive family who wanted only to make it in the business as a way out ... the dream that hooked her up with older guys who weren't the harmless sweethearts the world made them out to be.From abuse at home to abuse from men, she never quite learned how to stay safe, and that comes across loud and clear. Something of a cautionary tale, Blue Jean Baby is written from the heart rather than the hips.The book has been used in high school and college classes as a representation of an ambitious but broken girl's experience in a time of music, free love, drugs, and social and political change ... a time before children were legally protected from both family and social danger.
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