Victory Is My Name is bitter and sweet, tragic and joyful, sometimes brutally real, but always stubbornly hopeful. Like a Huckleberry Finn or Holden Caulfield born female, Vickie gets abused when she's young and grows up complicated, but never quite loses that "maybe I can..." spirit. At eleven as a latch-key kid on the wrong side of Dallas in the 1950's, she hates the rules that say, You can't do that... You can't have that... You can't be that....because you're a girl."
Like her stubborn Kentucky grandmother, she takes what comes, but never stops believing that the rules are wrong. She achieves some unlikely and surprising goals, not by luck, but by grit and heart and a remarkably different kind of courage, she proves Girls can.It's not about being a hero, it's about never giving less than your best. It's about taking the life you get, and making it count."