Rent Blueprints for Building Better Girls: Fiction

Synopsis

Elissa Schappell, "a diva of the encapsulating phrase, capable of conveying a Pandora's box of feeling in a single line" (The New York Times Book Review) delivers eight provocative, darkly funny linked stories that map America's shifting cultural landscape from the late 1970s to the present day.

In Blueprints for Building Better Girls, a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice and an O, The Oprah Magazine"Top 5 Books of Year" selection, Elissa Schappell delves into the lives of an eclectic cast of archetypal female characters—from the high school slut to the good girl, the struggling artist to the college party girl, the wife who yearns for a child to the reluctant mother—to explore the commonly shared but rarely spoken of experiences that build girls into women and women into wives and mothers. Weaving in and out of one another's lives, whether connected by blood, or friendship, or necessity, these women create deep and lasting impressions. In revealing all their vulnerabilities and twisting our preconceived notions of who they are, Elissa Schappell, with dazzling wit and poignant prose alters how we think about the nature of female identity and how it evolves.

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