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Subtitle: teenage girls in America write on what fires up their lives today
By: edited by Amy Goldwasser
Edition: 1st Plume printing
Publisher: Plume
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9780452289833
Subjects: Teenagers' writings, American; Teenage girls; American essays; Teenagers' writings
Description: A vivid portrait of what it means to be a teenage girl in America today. Teenage girls today live their life in words--in text and instant messages, on blogs and social network pages. It's how they conduct their friendships and present themselves to the world, but they are also 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 offer a key to understanding one of the most mislabeled and underestimated members of society. Here, nearly sixty teenage girls from across the country, representing a diverse spectrum of socioeconomic, political, racial, and religious backgrounds, create 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.--From publisher description.
Notes: Originally published: New York : Hudson Street Press, 2007.