Before the awards, before the company, before Maine — there was a girl from West Virginia who wasn't supposed to go very far.

This is the story of how she did.

Fast-paced, honest, and impossible to put down, Mountain Girl follows Marilyn from a barefoot childhood in Appalachia through the losses, pivots, and stubborn acts of determination that carried her all the way to the boardroom. She writes of her father's early death, the weight of alcohol in her family, the relentless pressure to leave her "mountain girl" identity behind — and how she refused to become someone she wasn't while becoming someone extraordinary.

Published by Islandport Press.