Come meet author Patti Hawn and have her sign a copy of her new memoir Good Girls Don't.
Hawn is a Los Angeles film publicist and sister of the famous film actress Goldie Hawn. Her memoir is a deeply personal first-hand account of what it was like to be trapped in an unwanted pregnancy at the close of an era where home economics took precedence over sex education. It tells the story of the last generation of young women to experience life on the eve of the sexual revolution of the sixties.
As a teenager Hawn becomes pregnant by her High School boyfriend. In the typical "solution" of the time, she is sent away to a relative's home to have the baby in secret, and she gives up her infant son on the day he is born as many young women were more or less forced to do. But she never forgets the date he was born, and eventually - after 40 years - the desire to see him is overwhelming.
