The J Girls : a Reality Show /
Winner of the 2021 Blue Light Books Prize, Rochelle Hurt's The J Girls: A Reality Show is a tribute to the grit and glitter of millennial girlhood, a testament to its dangers and traumas, and an elegy for adolescent friendships.
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| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press : Indiana Review, [2022] |
| Series: | Blue light books.
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| Online Access: | Click here for full text at JSTOR |
Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Cast List
- Opening Credits: Adoration of the J Girls
- Episode 1: The J Girls Get High
- Less Is More
- Wifebeaters
- Prayer for Effacement
- Middling
- Thigh High
- Ode on My Upspeak
- Bath & Body Works Pastoral
- Episode 2: The J Girls Chase Tail
- Ode to My '81 Chevy Celebrity
- Weeknight
- Prayer for Containment
- Ode to the C Word
- The Birth of Anger at the Roller-Skating Rink
- The Cut
- Origins & Outcomes
- Lip Smacker Fantasia
- Episode 3: The J Girls Give Face
- Pluralizing
- Mall Haunts
- Glitter Ode
- Demolition Derby Queens
- Dangling Modifier
- Ponytail Politic
- Cunts in the Girls' Room
- oo-yay & eye-yay
- Wet n Wild Romance
- Episode 4: The J Girls Get Caught (on Camera)
- Documentary
- What the Thief Learned to Take Early
- Viral
- Prayer for Exposure
- Ode to an Empty Womb
- Double Negative
- Mimi
- Avon Grotesque
- Episode 5: The J Girls Reunion
- Y2K Confessions
- Episode 6: The J Girls Cash Out
- Selfward
- Silence Is Golden
- I Could Eat You Up
- Circular Argument
- Who Taught You That One?
- Can I Call You Ellie?
- McDonald's 4-ever
- End Credits: Beatitudes for Meek Girls
- Acknowledgments
- Credits
- About the Author