This month Hella reviews the book The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel that Scandalized The World by Sarah Weinman

The author of this non-fiction book spent many months researching through court documents and transcripts, prison records, numerous state and other local archives, dozens of interviews and more to make certain the story about Sally Horner was as accurate as possible.

In 1948 eleven year old Sally Horner was an honor student in Camden, New Jersey living with her widowed mother, Ella. She tried to impress some popular girls and stole a 5-cent notebook at the local dime store. As Sally was leaving the store a man, Frank La Salle, grabbed her arm stating he was an FBI agent, but was actually a mechanic with multiple rape convictions… Read the full review

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