The J Girls: A Reality Show (Blue Light Books)

By: Rochelle Hurt

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Synopsis: Jocelyn, Jodie, Jennifer, Jacqui, Joelle. Ignoring the optimistic advice of elders, these five working-class teens in the Rust Belt band together in their embrace of bad behavior and poor taste as they navigate sexuality and identity with loud-mouthed joy and clear-eyed cynicism. 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 and a testament to its dangers and traumas. Hurt's creative, genre-bending mix of poetry, fiction, and screenplay brings the girls to life with campy performances of monologues, soap opera clips, mock interviews, talk shows, commercials, and even burlesque. Vulgar, rhapsodic language serves as costume and shield, allowing the J Girls to script their own images and project glowing, outsized versions of themselves into the safe space of the TV screen. Playful and poignant, The J Girls is a flashy ode to performance and a nostalgic elegy for adolescent friendships.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 92 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9780253060624
Related ISBNs:: 9780253060600, 9780253060617
Publisher:: Indiana University Press
Date of Addition:: 06/07/22
Copyrighted By:: Rochelle Hurt
Adult content:: Yes
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Entertainment, Nonfiction, Poetry, Art and Architecture, Literature and Fiction, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender, Language Arts
Reading Age:: 18 and up
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.

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