{"product_id":"1443433624-how_to_build_a_girl","title":"How To Build A Girl","description":"\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA hilarious yet deeply moving coming-of-age novel from \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author Caitlin Moran, “the U.K.’s answer to Tina Fey, Chelsea Handler, and Lena Dunham all rolled into one” (\u003ci\u003eMarie Claire\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\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\n\u003cbr\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 \u003ci\u003eLittle Women\u003c\/i\u003e, or the Bröntes―but without the dying young bit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\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 kinds of sex with all kinds of men and eviscerating bands in reviews of 600 words or less.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\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\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eImagine \u003ci\u003eThe Bell Jar\u003c\/i\u003e―written by Rizzo from \u003ci\u003eGrease\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eHow to Build a Girl\u003c\/i\u003e is a funny, poignant and heartbreakingly evocative story of self-discovery and invention, as only Caitlin Moran could tell it. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCategories:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLiterature \u0026amp; Fiction\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\u003cli class=\"category-tree\"\u003eGenre Fiction\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Used - Good","offer_id":49042509529278,"sku":"1443433624-4","price":11.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0640\/9689\/5166\/files\/51UqDTQCKOL._SL500.jpg?v=1789572071","url":"https:\/\/shop.sustainablebooks.com\/products\/1443433624-how_to_build_a_girl","provider":"Sustainable Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}