![]() Barecca ( They Used to Call Me Snow White, But I Drifted Of course, Barecca felt like "a duck in a swan suit" when she tried to wear Talbots-so she settled for being the dark-haired girl from Oceanside who wore thrift-store hats in classes full of students whose "blond heads with their own reflected light like enormous fireflies." That particular quote comes from her 1975 diary she also includes snippets from textbooks and other memoirs, a facsimile of one of her underwhelming grade reports and photos of herself in various silly but flattering poses and guises. ![]() Recalling her Dartmouth days with "a combination of pride, astonishment and affection"-and acknowledging that "astonishment dominates"-Brooklyn-raised Barecca serves up a witty, episodic, chatty and decidedly personal account of being one of the first women on the campus in the 1970s, when a few "ubercoeds" trotted about in sweater sets while "Better Dead Than Coed" banners festooned Fraternity Row. ![]()
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