What Girls Learn
A Novel
Published on 16. February 2011
320 pages
978-0-307-76615-1 (ISBN)
Description
radiant debut novel, What Girls Learn takes readers on an intimate and haunting journey into the landscape of girlhood and the complex terrain of the family. Wise, bittersweet, and above all intensely human, this astonishingly powerful novel enchants readers with its humor and insight even as it breaks their hearts.
More details
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
02/1998
Vintage Books
€32.84
Article exhausted; check different version
Karin Cook
What Girls Learn
Book
02/1997
Pantheon Books
€41.16
Article exhausted; check different version
Person
Karin Cook graduated from Vassar College and the Creative Writing Program at New York University. An activist and health educator, she currently lives and works in New York City where she is the development office at The Door, a multiservice youth center.
Content
- Intro
- About the Author
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Part I
- White Lies
- Geography
- Popularity
- Current Events
- Part II
- Directions
- Euphemism
- Privacy
- Chores
- Part III
- Blasphemy
- Home Remedies
- Beauty
- Heat
- Relative
- Part IV
- Spelling
- Gift
- Primary Care
- Duty
- Part V
- Independence
- Cooperation
- Home Economics
- Procession
- Memory
- Acknowledgments
