Status
Available
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Publication
Gorsky Pr (2006), 252 pages
Description
Grrrl is the story of a young girl searching for herself in the midst of the riot grrl movement. For young Marlie, music is more than just something to listen to. It's her salvation from the banality of the suburbs. She dreams of one day becoming a rock star and taking music back for the girls, but first, she has to struggle through high school, her own budding sexual awareness, her possible homosexuality, and her dangerous flirtation with an older indie rocker. Set in the suburbs of Toronto, Grrrl is a tender and beautiful novel about the pains of getting older.
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LibraryThing member jaybeee
Grrrl is written as a teenage girl's diary. It's a conceit that could work, if the character wasn't such a blatant Mary Sue. Sure, Marlie hits a few bumps in the road, but in the end, she is a guitarist in a band that ends up by playing a stadium show. She follows the perfect riot grrrl path of the
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early 1990s, complete with a trip to Seattle with her hip uncle and his girlfriend. It's just so predictable. And while Marlie details the nastier aspects of high school (confrontations with unpleasant guys, taunting about her sexuality), it is all pretty standard stuff that anyone who went to high school likely experienced. The book doesn't really shed any light on the coming of age of a young woman; it just details her inner thoughts in almost excruciating detail. It's a quick read but not one that I would choose again. Show Less
Language
Original language
English
Physical description
252 p.; 5 x 0.5 inches
ISBN
0975396447 / 9780975396445
Local notes
fiction
Other editions
Grrrl by Jennifer Whiteford (Paperback)