Word: girlhood
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...harrowing childhood like the one portrayed in that book only to become all timid and fluttery in the face of outrageous success. So here comes Cherry (Viking; 276 pages; $24.95), in which Karr picks up roughly where The Liars' Club left off and recounts her rocky journey from girlhood into full-fledged adolescence...
Kingston has had her main successes in prose writing. Her 1976 book, The Woman Warrior: Memoir of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction that year. The novel dealt with the challenge of growing up with American and Chinese culture. China Men, published in 1979, received the National Book Award...
...follow you your whole adult life are born." And doing a show about it is a great means of getting noticed. TV has fed the teen beast before, but these programs now enjoy cultural prominence, with Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Dawson's Creek becoming emblems of post-feminist girlhood, sex, violence, name your issue, in a way that Saved by the Bell never did. Today you hardly hear the word teen without angst following, but what these series display is adult angst with perkier buns and better clothes, grownups positing kids as canaries in the societal coal mine. Whither...
...Owns Anne Frank?" asked novelist Cynthia Ozick, in an article that holds up the diary as a sacred text and condemns any tamperers. The passions the book ignites suggest that everyone owns Anne Frank, that she has risen above the Holocaust, Judaism, girlhood and even goodness and become a totemic figure of the modern world--the moral individual mind beset by the machinery of destruction, insisting on the right to live and question and hope for the future of human beings...
...time to 1876, when Laura was nine and her family arrived there to help run the Masters Hotel. Laura's account of their sojourn in Burr Oak has never been published, and true fans will not want to miss it. The hotel is the only one of Laura's girlhood homes that remains on its original site. It has been restored and outfitted with furnishings authentic for the late 19th century, and it is easy to imagine little Laura scampering about the building and grounds with her sisters...