http://newrepublic.i2p/article/136645/girl-north-country
And while so many recent books have taken on the subject of “ girlhood ” and troubled girlhood— Gone Girl, The Girl on the Train, Girl in the Dark —they play up the drama of transformation more often than they address the ordeal of finding oneself in a suddenly altered reality, one that makes bodies objects of appraisal and potential violation and where there’s a confounding mix of new threats and desires, power and concessions.