ABOUT THE BOOK

Helen Memel is an outspoken, contradictory eighteen-year-old, whose childlike stubborness is offset by a precocious sexual confidence. SHe begins her story from a hospital bed, where she's slowly recovering from an operation and lamenting her parents' divorce. To distract and console herself, Helen ruminates on her sexual and physical adventures in increasingly uncomfortable detail. What ensues is "a headlong dash through every crevice and byproduct- both physical and psychological- of Helen's body and mind"

Guerilla warrior against the sanitized version of femininity prescribed by woman's magazines, punky alienated teenager, vulnerable daughter, shock merchant, and pleasure seeker- Helen is all of these things and more, and her frequent attempts to assert her maturity ultimately prove just how fragile, confused, and young as she truly is.

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