Girls Write NowGirls Write Now
Two Decades of True Stories From Young Female Voices
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Current format, Book, 2018, First U.S. edition, Available .Book, 2018
Current format, Book, 2018, First U.S. edition, Available . Offered in 0 more formats"Teenage girls tell their most urgent stories in personal essays, punctuated by inspiration and advice from Zadie Smith, Roxane Gay, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Gloria Steinem, Alice Walker, and more of today's great writers. Girls Write Now: Two Decades of True Stories from Young Female Voices offers a brave and timely portrait of teenage-girl life in the United States over the past twenty years. They're working part-time jobs to make ends meet, deciding to wear a hijab to school, sharing a first kiss, coming out to their parents, confronting violence and bullying, and immigrating to a new country while holding onto their heritage. Through it all, these young writers tackle issues of race, gender, poverty, sex, education, politics, family, and friendship. Together their narratives capture indelible snapshots of the past and lay bare hopes, insecurities, and wisdom for the future. Interwoven is advice from great women writers, Roxane Gay, Francine Prose, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Zadie Smith, Quiara Alegria Hudes, Janet Mock, Gloria Steinem, Lena Dunham, Mia Alvar, and Alice Walker, offering guidance to a young reader about where she's been and where she might go. Inspiring and informative, Girls Write Now belongs in every school, library and home, adding much-needed and long-overdue perspectives on what it is to be young in America"--
Teenage girls tell their most urgent stories in personal essays, punctuated by inspiration and advice from today's great women writers. The result is a brave and timely portrait of teenage-girl life in the United States over the past twenty years. They're working part-time jobs to make ends meet, deciding to wear a hijab to school, coming out to their parents, confronting violence and bullying, and immigrating to a new country while holding onto their heritage. Through it all, they tackle issues of race, gender, poverty, sex, education, politics, family, and friendship. -- adapted from publisher info
Teenage girls tell their most urgent stories in personal essays, punctuated by inspiration and advice from today's great women writers. The result is a brave and timely portrait of teenage-girl life in the United States over the past twenty years. They're working part-time jobs to make ends meet, deciding to wear a hijab to school, coming out to their parents, confronting violence and bullying, and immigrating to a new country while holding onto their heritage. Through it all, they tackle issues of race, gender, poverty, sex, education, politics, family, and friendship. -- adapted from publisher info
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- Portland, Oregon : Tin House Books, 2018.
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