How to Build a Girl
Caitlin Moran
Fiction M79h
It’s 1990.
Johanna Morrigan, fourteen, has shamed herself so badly on local TV
that she decides that there’s no point in being Johanna anymore and
reinvents herself as Dolly Wilde—fast-talking, hard-drinking Gothic hero. She will save her poverty-stricken
Bohemian family by becoming a writer—like Jo in Little Women, or the
Bröntes—but without the dying young bit. By sixteen, she’s smoking
cigarettes, getting drunk, and working for a music paper, eviscerating bands in reviews of 600 words or less.
But
what happens when Johanna realizes she’s built Dolly with a fatal flaw?
Is a box full of records, a wall full of posters, and a head full of
paperbacks, enough to build a girl after all?
(From publisher.)
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