A review by tteeaall
Girlhood by Melissa Febos

5.0

very good book, also, at points, very difficult to read. read the first half and it unsettled me so much that i had this chalky terror knowing i had to pick it up again, even though i also knew i wanted to finish it. the latter half of the book soothed me more, probably because it is less about the actual traumatic events of girlhood and more about how to synthesize them when you grow. the mother/daughter chapter was so good. the conversation around “empty consent” and ambivalence was so good