Amazon Category:  Literary Fiction Publisher: St. Martin's Press ISBN-10:  0312339739 Type: Fiction ISBN-13: 97803122339739 A young birth mother makes a tragic mistake which impacts her child, the adoptive parents and herself.

The Washington Post
Both a page-turner and also a canny portrait of the trouble perfectly ordinary people can get into while trying to satisfy their perfectly ordinary needs for love and security and happiness. It is no small accomplishment to portray the lives of decent people and their poor choices in such a way that we continue to care about what happens to them. The pleasure of this novel comes from Leavitt's wisdom about the deep chasm of misfortune, her exploration of misfortune's steep slope and her recognition that climbing out of misfortune's pit, step by arduous step, requires a heroism that literature, with its capacity for rendering the elevated quality of ordinary experience, can portray so beautifully. The characters are blazingly knowable, and it is Leavitt's sympathy that gives her novel both its page-turning momentum and its dignity"

Marta Salij, Free Press/Magic 105.1 Book Club Selection
"Heartfelt and poignant."

The Boston Globe
"Leavitt has a sharp ear for dialogue and descriptive details. As the characters all try to come to terms with the rich emotional cauldron of their lives, the feelings they spark are familiar and resonant. "Girls in Trouble" deftly and poignantly charts the slow erosion of familial ties and the lengths to which love and desperation can drive us all."