num_pages: 278
description: Lives of Girls and Women is the intensely readable, touching and very funny story of Del Jordan, a young woman who journeys from the carelessness of childhood through an uneasy adolescence in search of love and sexual experience.As Del dreams of becoming famous, suffers embarrassment about her mother, endures the humiliation of her body's insistent desires, and tries desperately to fall in love, she grapples with the cries that mark the passage to womanhood.
language: English
title: Lives of Girls and Women
titlecomplete: Lives of Girls and Women
genres: Fiction, Short Stories, Canadian Literature, Coming Of Age, Canada, Classics, Feminism, Novels, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 13422
publisher: Penguin Canada