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Girls Write Now: Two Decades of True Stories from Young Female Voices
Teenage girls tell their most urgent stories, punctuated by inspiration and advice from Zadie Smith, Roxane Gay, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Gloria Steinem, Alice Walker, and more of today’s great writers.
Girls Write Now: Two Decades of True Stories from Young Female Voices offers a brave and timely portrait of life as a teenage girl in the United States over the past twenty years. They’re working part-time jobs to make ends meet, deciding to wear a hijab to school, sharing a first kiss, coming out to their parents, confronting violence and bullying, and immigrating to a new country while holding onto their heritage. Through it all, these young writers tackle issues of race, gender, poverty, sex, education, politics, family, and friendship. Together their narratives capture indelible snapshots of the past and lay bare hopes, insecurities, and wisdom for the future.
Interwoven is advice from great women writers―Roxane Gay, Francine Prose, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Zadie Smith, Quiara Alegria Hudes, Janet Mock, Gloria Steinem, Lena Dunham, Mia Alvar, and Alice Walker―offering guidance to a young reader about where she’s been and where she might go. Inspiring and informative, Girls Write Now belongs in every school, library and home, adding much-needed and long-overdue perspectives on what it is to be young in America.
Praise
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“Find in these pages whispered, shouted, necessary notes on our present in the voices of girls on their way to becoming women.”
—Naomi Jackson
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“This book is a resounding affirmation of young female life, in all its multiplicity.”
—Tavi Gevinson
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“It sounds like a fantasy, too good for this world. A place where women and girls meet to write and discuss writing. Incredible.”
—Ilana Glazer
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“Warning: there is so much heart, intensity, guts, and sheer talent in these pages, you’re going to need to remind yourself to breathe.”
—Lynn Melnick
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“Deeply important work―young women, now more than ever, must claim their own stories.”
—Emma Cline
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“These voices are brilliant and daring and playful and coming into their own. They are an absolute pleasure to read.”
—Nicola Yoon
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“The revolution is now and girls are leading the way! They are not afraid to speak up. These are the voices of our future leaders, activists, change makers. Give this book to all the girls and boys in your life. Give it to all the adults. Read it. Listen to their words. This is the revolution.”
—Ellen Oh
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“Each story here is a reminder that we build writers by not only believing that they have the talent and spirit it takes to write, but also by showing them how our very voices can influence the world.”
—Lisa Lucas
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