How to Build a Girl
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What do you do in your teenage years when you realize what your parents taught you wasn't enough? You must go out and find books and poetry and pop songs and bad heroes-and build yourself. It's 1990. Johanna Morrigan, fourteen, has shamed herself so badly on local TV that she decides that there's no point in being Johanna anymore and reinvents herself as Dolly Wilde-fast-talking, hard-drinking gothic hero and full-time Lady Sex Adventurer. She will save her poverty-stricken Bohemian family by becoming a writer-like Jo in Little Women, or the Brontës-but without the dying-young bit. By sixteen, she's smoking cigarettes, getting drunk, and working for a music paper. She's writing pornographic letters to rock stars, having all the kinds of sex with all the kinds of men, and eviscerating bands in reviews of 600 words or less. But what happens when Johanna realizes she's built Dolly with a fatal flaw? Is a box full of records, a wall full of posters, and a head full of paperbacks enough to build a girl after all? Imagine The Bell Jar-written by Rizzo from Grease. How to Build a Girl is a funny, poignant, and heartbreakingly evocative story of self-discovery and invention, as only Caitlin Moran could tell it.
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Moran, C., & Brealey, L. (2014). How to Build a Girl. Unabridged. HarperAudio.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Moran, Caitlin and Louise, Brealey. 2014. How to Build a Girl. HarperAudio.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Moran, Caitlin and Louise, Brealey, How to Build a Girl. HarperAudio, 2014.
MLA Citation (style guide)Moran, Caitlin, and Louise Brealey. How to Build a Girl. Unabridged. HarperAudio, 2014.
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| duration | 9h 31m 2s |
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| dateLastUpdated | Jul 10, 2025 06:13:21 PM |
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