How to build a girl

By Caitlin Moran

Subjects: Fiction, coming of age, Teenagers, Teenage girls, Nineteen nineties, New York Times reviewed, Fiction

Description: After she shames herself on local television, Johanna Morgan reinvents herself as Dolly Wilde--a fast-talking, hard-drinking Gothic hero--until two years later, while eviscerating bands as a music critic, she realizes she's built Dolly with a fatal flaw.