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Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia is a 2023 autobiographical memoir written by Hadley Freeman, and published by Fourth Estate for HarperCollins.The book explores Freeman's struggles with anorexia nervosa from age 14 to 17, and subsequently with obsessive–compulsive disorder and addiction to cocaine. [1]
The protagonist of the book is Steven Alper, a 13-year-old boy living in New Jersey.The Alper family consists of Dad, an accountant; Mom, an English teacher; Steven, an enthusiastic and talented drummer who is also a self-described "skinny geek;" and Jeffrey, eight years younger, whom Steven describes as cute, adoring of his big brother, and apt to blurt out really embarrassing remarks about ...
Madeline is the smallest of the girls. She is seven years old, and the only redhead. The group's troublemaker, she is the bravest and most daring of the girls, flaunting at "the tiger in the zoo" and giving Miss Clavel a headache as she goes around the city engaging in all sorts of antics.
Due to the book's fame, "Pollyanna" has become a byword for someone who, like the title character, has an unfailingly optimistic outlook; [1] a subconscious bias towards the positive is often described as the Pollyanna principle. Despite the current common use of the term to mean "excessively cheerful", Pollyanna and her father played the glad ...
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder left an impression with its Netflix debut — but how does the TV adaptation compare to the original book series?. The six-part adaptation is based on the novel of ...
Dunham herself told NPR that "each character was a piece of me or based on someone close to me". [2] According to Forbes reporter Madeline Berg, "In Girls, characters and relationships lack veneers. Whereas most television shows compel you to like their protagonists, Girls wants you to believe them."
The strong female character is a stock character, the opposite of the damsel in distress. In the first half of the 20th century, the rise of mainstream feminism and the increased use of the concept in the later 20th century have reduced the concept to a standard item of pop culture fiction.
Every Soul a Star is a 2008 novel for children and young adults by Wendy Mass. [1] Taking turns in first person from each of the main character's' point of view, it follows the stories of Jack, a confidence-lacking 14-year-old who is slightly overweight, Ally, a nearly 13-year-old homeschooled girl who wants to be an astronomer, and Bree, a 13-year-old whose life goal is to be on the cover of ...