{"product_id":"how-to-be-a-good-girl-a-miscellany-paperback","title":"How to Be a Good Girl: A Miscellany - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJamie Hood\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe ambitious and experimental debut by Jamie Hood, author of \u003ci\u003eTrauma Plot\u003c\/i\u003e, interrogating the \"good girl\" archetype and the price one pays to embody it\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the thick of winter 2020, when so many books were buried beneath the catastrophe of the COVID-19 news cycle, one unlikely debut seemed to cut through the noise. Jamie Hood's \u003ci\u003eHow to Be a Good Girl\u003c\/i\u003e was an inventive and hybrid work of self-making, mingling diary entries, poetry, literary criticism, and love letters to interrogate the archetype of the \"good girl,\" and the ideas of femininity, passivity, desire, and trauma that come with it. Journeying from the ice age to our modern-day climate crisis, it devoured texts as expansive as Levinas and Plath to the Ronettes and after-school specials, all the while asking: what pound of flesh must a woman pay to be seen as \"good.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eHow to Be a Good Girl \u003c\/i\u003ewas a critical darling when it was first published by Grieveland. \u003ci\u003eThe Rumpus \u003c\/i\u003epraised its \"bold vulnerability,\" and \u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e named it a Best Book of 2020. Now, Vintage is proud to reissue this provocative and genre-bending debut and find new readers for an exciting, new literary voice.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJAMIE HOOD\u003c\/b\u003e is a critic, memoirist, and poet, and the author of H\u003ci\u003eow to Be a Good Girl\u003c\/i\u003e (Grieveland 2020). Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eBookforum, The Baffler, The Nation, Los Angeles Review of Books, The New Inquiry, Observer, The Drift, SSENSE, Bookforum, Vogue, \u003c\/i\u003e and elsewhere. She lives in Brooklyn.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 176\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.2 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 25, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52469350203699,"sku":"9798217006847","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/OiCmydryrH9798217006847.webp?v=1759391574","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/how-to-be-a-good-girl-a-miscellany-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}