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Original Title: Blueprints for Building Better Girls
ISBN: 074327671X (ISBN13: 9780743276719)
Edition Language: English

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Elissa Schappell, “a diva of the encapsulating phrase, capable of conveying a Pandora’s box of feeling in a single line” (The New York Times Book Review) delivers eight provocative, darkly funny linked stories that map America’s shifting cultural landscape from the late 1970s to the present day.

Blueprints for Building Better Girls delves into the lives of an eclectic cast of archetypal female characters—from the high school slut to the good girl, the struggling artist to the college party girl, the wife who yearns for a child to the reluctant mother—mapping America’s shifting cultural landscape from the late 1970s to the present day. Its interconnected stories explore the commonly shared but rarely spoken of experiences that build girls into women and women into wives and mothers. In revealing all their vulnerabilities and twisting our preconceived notions of who they are, Elissa Schappell alters how we think about the nature of female identity and how it evolves.

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Title:Blueprints for Building Better Girls: Fiction
Author:Elissa Schappell
Book Format:Paperback
Book Edition:Deluxe Edition
Pages:Pages: 320 pages
Published:July 10th 2012 by Simon Schuster (first published September 6th 2011)
Categories:Short Stories. Fiction. Womens. Feminism. Adult Fiction

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This collection is lit gold. Elissa Schappell writes about contemporary women so successfully. These girls really suffer. And the boys! Schappell's fate hand is cruel and yet these girls/women muster it all: courage, shame, humor, grace, guilt, and compassion. The stories are interconnected and so there are some heartbreaking unspoken connections the reader can discover, ghostly underpinning. A rape brought up close in one story is referenced in another from the perspective of a friend who can't

Im not sure that the girls in Building Blueprints for Better Girls are necessarily better for their experiences, but they are intensely familiar, as if I had studied their blueprints. As you read, its hard not to think, Oh, I know her. Its not that a character reminds you of someone you already know, but that they are rendered with such consistent attention to personal identity that you feel you should know them. You expect to run into them on the sidewalk.The book elevates self-examination to



Blueprints for Building Better Girls: Stories is a collection of eight short stories with a cast of lead female characters who all have a reputation: high school slut, goody two-shoes, party girl, overprotective mom, etc.The stories all share those moments when you move from being a girl to a woman. They are those moments that you don't celebrate and you don't necessarily talk about. They aren't those 'getting your period' or 'sweet sixteen' moments, they are more along the lines of those 'walk

this book is excellent, but don't let some of the more slavering reviews on goodreads fool you. this is in no way like a "complete & fully-realized novel," nor do the "stories blend seamlessly into one another." what were those reviewers thinking? put down the crack pipe, guys. this is a collection of short stories, & while each one features at least one character that has been featured in another story in the book (sometimes the narrator, sometimes a character so secondary as to not

Don't let the format fool you. Elissa Schappell's collection of short stories, BLUEPRINTS FOR BUILDING BETTER GIRLS (Simon & Schuster, HC 9780743276702, e-Book 9781451607321, September 2011), reads like a complete, fully-realized novel. Schappell introduces eight extraordinary, complex, and wonderfully-imperfect women who make unexpected visits into each other's stories. In the first story, "Monsters of the Deep," we meet an adolescent girl in the 1980s dubbed as the high school floozy, only

Daaaaaamnnnn I didn't want this one to end!Schappell's second book, a collection of short stories, is spot-on. Each story, though separate, blends seamlessly into the next, giving readers a comprehensive view of the characters. This is the perfect choice if you only have pockets of time in which to read - but you won't want to stop at just one story!