Amanda Bateman

Tie Dye Tuesday Amanda Bateman

"Reading the essays in TIE DYE TUESDAY is like reading Bateman's personal diary. She fuses her fears of adulthood with her own struggles as both a camp counselor and a college student. She captures the camper in all of us." - Rob Spadafore THE SILVER BIN At eighteen years old, Amanda Bateman applied to be a counselor at a Girl Scout camp in Western Pennsylvania. For the next four years, instead of looking for internships or working a part time job, she canoes, eats chicken fingers, and fights raccoons. Tie Dye Tuesday is a reflection of what those years as a counselor as well as what camping with her family has made her believe about family, friendship, and herself. It is a memoir of the summers between her four years in college and trying to grow up while being paid to act like a kid.