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Author:
Melissa Febos
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing
Date:
March 30, 2021
A set of essays about the forces that shape girls and the adults they become and a guide to transforming the self and our society.
What The Reviewers Say
... ambitious.
Every once in a while, a book comes along that feels so definitive, so necessary, that not only do you want to tell everyone to read it now, but you also find yourself wanting to go back in time and tell your younger self that you will one day get to read something that will make your life make sense. Melissa Febos’s fierce nonfiction collection, Girlhood, might just be that book. Febos is one of our most passionate and profound essayists.
... psychologically complex and lyrical.
I wish I could have read Girlhood when I was young. While I am decades past the era investigated by essayist Melissa Febos, her third memoir resonated with my own fraught emergence under surveillance and scrutiny.
