The Ping-Pong Champion of Chinatown

GOLD MEDAL WINNER-GLOBAL BOOK AWARDS
WINNER-INDEPENDENT PRESS AWARDS
FINALIST-BOOK EXCELLENCE AWARDS\n"If you're reading my book, I'm gonna consider you my friend. It ain't like you gotta meet me 'cause I'm kind of a bad influence, but if you keep me at a distance, you could probably be my friend."\nBuffeted by this 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.\nFrom 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.