Girls on the Verge

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by Vendela Vida

Girls on the Verge ~~ Palm eBook

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Girls on the Verge Summary:

In her fascinating look at how young women are coming of age in America, Vendela Vida explores a variety of rituals that girls have adapted or created in order to leave their childhoods behind. Vida doesn't just observe the rituals, she actively participates in them, going as far as spending a week at UCLA to experience rush -- she emerges a Tri-Delt. She also goes to Miami to learn about the "quince" (the Latin American celebration of a girl's fifteenth birthday), to Houston to take part in a debutante bal, to Los Angeles and San Francisco to talk to female gang members, to Salem, Massachusetts, to interview a coven of witches, and to Las Vegas to watch young brides take the plunge -- some of them in drive-through wedding chapels. With humor, insight, and illuminating detail, she explores girl's struggles to forge an identity and secure a sense of belonging through various rituals -- rituals that they embrace without necessarily understanding the comforts they seek or the repercussions of their often all-too-adult choices.

Cover design by Carin Goldberg
Cover photographs by Michael Cuno