{"product_id":"how-to-build-a-girl","title":"How to Build a Girl","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eNow a major motion picture starring Beanie Feldstein!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e bestselling author hailed as “the UK’s answer to Tina Fey, Chelsea Handler, and Lena Dunham all rolled into one” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMarie Claire\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e) makes her fiction debut with a hilarious yet deeply moving coming of age novel.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhat do you do in your teenage years when you realize what your parents taught you wasn’t enough? You must go out and find books and poetry and pop songs and bad heroes—and build yourself.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt’s 1990. Johanna Morrigan, fourteen, has shamed herself so badly on local TV that she decides that there’s no point in being Johanna anymore and reinvents herself as Dolly Wilde—fast-talking, hard-drinking Gothic hero and full-time Lady Sex Adventurer. She will save her poverty-stricken Bohemian family by becoming a writer—like Jo in Little Women, or the Bröntes—but without the dying young bit.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBy sixteen, she’s smoking cigarettes, getting drunk and working for a music paper. She’s writing pornographic letters to rock-stars, having all the kinds of sex with all kinds of men, and eviscerating bands in reviews of 600 words or less.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBut what happens when Johanna realizes she’s built Dolly with a fatal flaw? Is a box full of records, a wall full of posters, and a head full of paperbacks, enough to build a girl after all?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eImagine \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Bell Jar\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e written by Rizzo from \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eGrease. How to Build a Girl\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a funny, poignant, and heartbreakingly evocative story of self-discovery and invention, as only Caitlin Moran could tell it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fiction","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46202860863700,"sku":"","price":23.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0673\/2431\/3812\/files\/71L6t-Cm4OL._SL1500.jpg?v=1744103273","url":"https:\/\/bluebooks.ae\/products\/how-to-build-a-girl","provider":"Blue Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}