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Red, November 2007
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The Next Generation of American Writers--Teenage Girls--On What Fires Up TheirLives Today
Hudson Street Press
November 2007
On Sale: November 8, 2007
288 pages
ISBN: 1594630402
EAN: 9781594630408
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A vivid portrait of what it means to be a teenage girl in
America today, from 58 of the country's finest, most
credentialed writers on the subject
If you're
a teenage girl today, you live your life in words-in text
and instant messages, on blogs and social network pages.
It's how you conduct your friendships and present yourself
to the world. Every day, you're creating a formidable body
of personal written work.
This generation's
unprecedented comfort level with the written word has led to
a fearless new American literature. These collected essays,
at last, offer a key to understanding the inscrutable
teenage girl-one of the most mislabeled and underestimated
members of society, argues editor and writer Amy Goldwasser,
whose work has appeared in Seventeen, Vogue,
The New York Times, and The New Yorker. And
while psychologists and other experts have tried to explain
the teen girl in recent years, no book since Ophelia
Speaks has given her the opportunity to speak for
herself-until now.
In this eye-opening
collection, nearly sixty teenage girls from across the
country speak out, writing about everything from
post-Katrina New Orleans to Johnny Depp; from learning to
rock climb to starting a rock band; from the loneliness of
losing a best friend to the loathing or pride they feel
about their bodies. Ranging in age from 13 to 19, and
hailing from Park Avenue to rural Nevada, Georgia to Hawaii,
the girls in RED-whose essays were selected from more than
800 contributions-represent a diverse spectrum of
socioeconomic, political, racial, and religious backgrounds,
creating a rich portrait of life as a teen girl in America
today.
Revealing the complicated inner lives,
humor, hopes, struggles, thrills, and obsessions of this
generation, RED ultimately provides today's teen girl with
much-needed community, perspective, and validation-and helps
the rest of us to better understand her.
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