Overview
A feminist coming-of-age comedy that follows the endless humiliations, unrequited obsessions, and all-consuming friendships of fifteen-year-old Evia Birtwhistle as she leads a body hair positive revolution at her school.
Fifteen-year-old Evia Birtwhistle cant seem to catch a break. At home, she must deal with her free-spirited mom, and at school shes the target of ridicule for stating basic truths: like that girls have body hair!
When her BFF Frankiewho has facial hair due to her PCOSbecomes the target of school bullies, Evia decides that enough is enough and creates the Hairy Girls Club.
Leading a feminist movement at school is not easy. Boys often look at Evia like shes a total weirdo, and the self-proclaimed smoothalicious girls start their own campaign in retaliation. As Evia struggles with feeling strong enough to lead, and questions how to be a good friend to Frankie, she falls back on the best thing she hashope. Her message is simple: We CAN make this world a more accepting, less judgmental place for girls to live in…one hairy leg at a time!
Fifteen-year-old Evia Birtwhistle cant seem to catch a break. At home, she must deal with her free-spirited mom, and at school shes the target of ridicule for stating basic truths: like that girls have body hair!
When her BFF Frankiewho has facial hair due to her PCOSbecomes the target of school bullies, Evia decides that enough is enough and creates the Hairy Girls Club.
Leading a feminist movement at school is not easy. Boys often look at Evia like shes a total weirdo, and the self-proclaimed smoothalicious girls start their own campaign in retaliation. As Evia struggles with feeling strong enough to lead, and questions how to be a good friend to Frankie, she falls back on the best thing she hashope. Her message is simple: We CAN make this world a more accepting, less judgmental place for girls to live in…one hairy leg at a time!
- | Author: Gemma Cary
- | Publisher: Random House USA Inc
- | Publication Date: Aug 27, 2024
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- | Binding: Hardback
- | ISBN-13: 9780593651261
- | ISBN-10: 059365126X
