{"product_id":"9780062335982","title":"How to Build a Girl : A Novel","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eHow to Build a Girl\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Caitlin Moran\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNow a major motion picture starring Beanie Feldstein!\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling author hailed as “the UK’s answer to Tina Fey, Chelsea Handler, and Lena Dunham all rolled into one” (\u003cem\u003eMarie Claire\u003c\/em\u003e) makes her fiction debut with a hilarious yet deeply moving coming of age novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat do you do in your teenage years when you realize what your parents taught you wasn’t enough? You must go out and find books and poetry and pop songs and bad heroes—and build yourself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt’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 and full-time Lady Sex Adventurer. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy sixteen, she’s smoking cigarettes, getting drunk and working for a music paper. She’s writing pornographic letters to rock-stars, having all the kinds of sex with all kinds of men, and eviscerating bands in reviews of 600 words or less.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eImagine \u003cem\u003eThe Bell Jar\u003c\/em\u003e written by Rizzo from \u003cem\u003eGrease. How to Build a Girl\u003c\/em\u003e is a funny, poignant, and heartbreakingly evocative story of self-discovery and invention, as only Caitlin Moran could tell it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e“Rowdy and fearless ... sloppy, big-hearted and alive in all the right ways…. Ms. Moran is often compared to Tina Fey and Lena Dunham, which is fair so far as it goes, though I’d add Amy Winehouse and the early Roseanne Barr to the mix.”\u003cbr\u003e“Vivid and full of truths…. There’s a point in midlife, when you’re already built, as it were, when the average coming-of-age story starts to feel completely uninteresting. But Moran is so lively, dazzlingly insightful and fun that “How to Build a Girl” transcends any age restrictions.”\u003cbr\u003e“Wonderfully wise and flat-out hilarious.”\u003cbr\u003e“Very funny.... Moran never loses touch with what seemed to me an authentic and believable teenage voice…. The joy of this easy-read novel is not just the scrappy protagonist…. Moran makes strong statements about social inequality and gender throughout.”\u003cbr\u003e“I have so much love for Caitlin Moran.”\u003cbr\u003e“The earnestness with which Johanna goes about constructing a new persona gives the novel an almost irresistible verve, and the reader continues to root for her even during the most embarrassing episodes.”\u003cbr\u003e“A smart, splendid, laugh-out-loud-funny novel.”\u003cbr\u003e“A feminist coming-of-age tale…. Johanna is an irrepressible narrator, telling a mostly-true and funny tale of survival and success.”\u003cbr\u003e“Brilliantly observed, thrillingly rude and laugh-out-loud funny.”\u003cbr\u003e“Binge-read all of \u003ci\u003eHow To Build a Girl\u003c\/i\u003e in one sitting. Even missed supper. A first. Rose petals where ‘ere you walk, Caitlin.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780062335982\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":41098937041102,"sku":"9780062335982","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/9780062335982.jpg?v=1649389278","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780062335982","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}