Eliza Scanlen's Jem Starling, in Laurel Parmet's The Starling Girl, doesn't have an easy life growing up in rural Kentucky. The seventeen-year-old girl wholeheartedly believes she's disappointing God, her family, and everybody involved as she doesn't want to marry the boy they'd like. The actress's coming-of-age role is often heartbreaking,
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