Title: How to build a girl
Description: After she shames herself on local television, Johanna Morgan reinvents herself as Dolly Wilde--a fast-talking, hard-drinking Gothic hero--until two years later, while eviscerating bands as a music critic, she realizes she's built Dolly with a fatal flaw.
Subjects: Nineteen nineties, Teenage girls, Fiction, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, coming of age, Teenagers
Places: England