I found Girlhood (2021) by Melissa Febos on NPR’s Best Books List. It’s a relatively short book, composed of essays discussing Febos’s difficult adolescence. The description stated that Febos “questions the way girls’ behaviors are controlled, and how we learn to cage and control ourselves well into adulthood.” I was impressed by Girlhood. Febos is a very good writer. She visits parts of her life that some would consider too shameful to share. But in opening up about what happened to her as a tween and teenager, she allows us […]