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The loose-linked remembrances Emily Hiestand packs into Angela the Upside-Down Girl reveal a tongue tucked firmly in cheek, an eye for social travesty, and a flair for wry, evocative description. Fresh from the American South with a carload of art-school friends, Hiestand alights in a down-at-the-heels seaside town near Boston, Massachusetts, where the houses boast fake rock siding that resembles "giant mixed nuts inexplicably plastered to the wall." The eponymous Angela is a stripper who peels off clothes whilst standing on her head and earnestly lectures others on the importance of being limber. Shuttling across time and latitude lines, Hiestand recalls growing up in Tennessee's "Atom City," where Manhattan Project physicists developed the bomb that razed Hiroshima and where geek chic ruled. She writes ruefully and wonderfully about trying to document the lives led by her grandmother's clan in the deeper South. Along with some memorable stories are hours of tape recording full of "hi