Buffeted by a cheery outlook, Gertie McDowell, a na?ve young girl from Turkey Roost, Kentucky, pens her diary-a series of bizarre misadventures that take her from starring on a foot fetish site in Los Angeles to hustling bets as a mechanical bull rider in Texas. From serving a stint in West Virginia's Alderson Prison, because she "trusted the wrong kind of fella," to getting sold into white slavery. But perhaps her crowning mishap is seeking the...