{"product_id":"not-that-kind-of-girl-a-young-woman-tells-you-what-shes-learned-9780812994995","title":"Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's Learned","description":"\u003cb\u003e#1 \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER - \u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eNAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY MICHIKO KAKUTANI, \u003ci\u003eTHE NEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY \u003ci\u003eBUZZFEED, THE GLOBE AND MAIL, \u003c\/i\u003eAND\u003ci\u003e LIBRARY JOURNAL\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor readers of Nora Ephron, Tina Fey, and David Sedaris, this hilarious, wise, and fiercely candid collection of personal essays establishes Lena Dunham--the acclaimed creator, producer, and star of HBO's \u003ci\u003eGirls\u003c\/i\u003e--as one of the most original young talents writing today. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eNot That Kind of Girl, \u003c\/i\u003e Dunham illuminates the experiences that are part of making one's way in the world: falling in love, feeling alone, being ten pounds overweight despite eating only health food, having to prove yourself in a room full of men twice your age, finding true love, and most of all, having the guts to believe that your story is one that deserves to be told. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Take My Virginity (No Really, Take It)\" is the account of Dunham's first time, and how her expectations of sex didn't quite live up to the actual event (\"No floodgate had been opened, no vault of true womanhood unlocked\"); \"Girls \u0026amp; Jerks\" explores her former attraction to less-than-nice guys--guys who had perfected the \"dynamic of disrespect\" she found so intriguing; \"Is This Even Real?\" is a meditation on her lifelong obsession with death and dying--what she calls her \"genetically predestined morbidity.\" And in \"I Didn't F*** Them, but They Yelled at Me,\" she imagines the tell-all she will write when she is eighty and past caring, able to reflect honestly on the sexism and condescension she has encountered in Hollywood, where women are \"treated like the paper thingies that protect glasses in hotel bathrooms--necessary but infinitely disposable.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Exuberant, moving, and keenly observed, \u003ci\u003eNot That Kind of Girl\u003c\/i\u003e is a series of dispatches from the frontlines of the struggle that is growing up. \"I'm already predicting my future shame at thinking I had anything to offer you,\" Dunham writes. \"But if I can take what I've learned and make one menial job easier for you, or prevent you from having the kind of sex where you feel you must keep your sneakers on in case you want to run away during the act, then every misstep of mine will have been worthwhile.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eNot That Kind of Girl\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The gifted Ms. Dunham not only writes with observant precision, but also brings a measure of perspective, nostalgia and an older person's sort of wisdom to her portrait of her (not all that much) younger self and her world. . . . As acute and heartfelt as it is funny.\"\u003cb\u003e--Michiko Kakutani, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"It's not Lena Dunham's candor that makes me gasp. Rather, it's her writing--which is full of surprises where you least expect them. A fine, subversive book.\"\u003cb\u003e--David Sedaris\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"This book should be required reading for anyone who thinks they understand the experience of being a young woman in our culture. I thought I knew the author rather well, and I found many (not altogether welcome) surprises.\"\u003cb\u003e--Carroll Dunham\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Witty, illuminating, maddening, bracingly bleak . . . [Dunham] is a genuine artist, and a disturber of the order.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"As Dunham proves beyond a shadow of a doubt in\u003ci\u003e Not That Kind of Girl, \u003c\/i\u003e she's not remotely at risk of offering up the same old sentimental tales we've read dozens of times.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Los Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Random House\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/30\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780812994995\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.60w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeople Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/21\/2014 pg. 56\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal Prepub Alert\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/15\/2014 pg. 51\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/05\/2014 pg. 70\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeople Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/06\/2014 pg. 35\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeople Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/13\/2014 pg. 47\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/10\/2014 pg. 64\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/06\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/12\/2014 pg. 14\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/19\/2014 pg. 26\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLJ Best Books of Year\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2014 pg. 33\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/12\/2014 pg. 72\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeople Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/22\/2014 pg. 46\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2015 pg. 24\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/15\/2014\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Lena Dunham","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51817759867061,"sku":"9780812994995","price":23.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_1255b97e-efe9-4775-8b47-472bdf3bbde3.jpg?v=1759241597","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/not-that-kind-of-girl-a-young-woman-tells-you-what-shes-learned-9780812994995","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}