How To Build A Girl: A Novel

"Halfway through How To Build A Girl I put the book down, sighed, and wondered if I should just barrel through and finish it in one night, or savor it for another day. There’s something about Caitlin Moran’s mixture of noisy fun and social commentary that’s a very happy place for a reader to hang out. The book follows the misadventures of Johanna Morrigan — an awkward, hilarious teen who decides that the path to reinvention will entail becoming a hard-drinking, oft-sexed rock critic. Her adventures are hilarious, and oddly relatable even when they’re sitcom-zany. If anyone knows how to build a girl, it’s Moran — she’s put adolescence on the page in a book that’s humming with authenticity. You’ll wish you were besties."