Dear Mr. Kirschbaum, Maria Difillipo, a curly-headed, chunky, Italian-American girl from Pennsylvania, and she's searching for a life. After an incident with a study circle and a biased teaching assistant, Maria decides to leave her elite Ivy League school for a life as a mudlogger in the oil patch in Texas. (A small translation note is needed for those who don’t speak Oilfield fluently. “Oil patch” can be loosely translated as “any place where people are drilling...