How to Be a Good Girl: A Miscellany

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Synopsis
The ambitious and experimental debut by Jamie Hood, author of Trauma Plot, interrogating the &“good girl&” archetype and the price one pays to embody itIn the thick of winter 2020, when so many books were buried beneath the catastrophe of the COVID-19 news cycle, one unlikely debut seemed to cut through the noise. Jamie Hood&’s How to Be a Good Girl was an inventive and hybrid work of self-making, mingling diary entries, poetry, literary criticism, and love letters to interrogate the archetype of the &“good girl,&” and the ideas of femininity, passivity, desire, and trauma that come with it. Journeying from the ice age to our modern-day climate crisis, it devoured texts as expansive as Levinas and Plath to the Ronettes and after-school specials, all the while asking: what pound of flesh must a woman pay to be seen as &“good.&”How to Be a Good Girl was a critical darling when it was first published by Grieveland. The Rumpus praised its &“bold vulnerability,&” and Vogue named it a Best Book of 2020. Now, Vintage is proud to reissue this provocative and genre-bending debut and find new readers for an exciting, new literary voice.
Copyright:
2020

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Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
176 Pages
ISBN-13:
9798217006854
Related ISBNs:
9798217006847, 9798217168774, 9798217168781
Publisher:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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Copyrighted By:
Jamie Hood
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Poetry, Biographies and Memoirs, Literature and Fiction, Social Studies
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