What girls learn

Karin Cook

first published 1997 Pantheon Books, 1997 304 pages

A Virago V

What Girls Learn takes readers on an intimate and haunting journey into the landscape of girlhood and the complex terrain of the family. Wise, bittersweet, and above all intensely human, this astonishingly powerful novel enchants readers with its humor and insight even as it breaks their hearts. In this emotional novel, Tilden, an adolescent girl, & her slightly younger sister move with their mother to suburban Long...

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What Girls Learn edition · 1999 · Tandem Library · 9780613068574
What girls learn edition · 1998 · Virago Press · 340 pages
What girls learn paperback · 1998 · Vintage Books · 304 pages · 9780679769446
What girls learn edition · 1997 · Pantheon Books · 304 pages
What Girls Learn paperback · 1997 · Pantheon Books · 340 pages · 9781860492495

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