Green Girl

<p><strong>I can't recall the last time I read a book whose heroine infuriated and seduced me as completely as Kate Zambreno's <em>Green Girl</em>. </strong><strong>--<em>Vanity Fair</em></strong></p><p><strong>Searing . . . </strong><strong><em>Green Girl</em> reveals the intimate awareness many women have about the ways they are on display when they move in public about the ways they perform their roles as women. </strong><strong>--Roxane Gay</strong></p><p><strong>A beloved indie darling now revised and updated including an extensive P.S. section with never-before-published outtakes and a new essay and interview with the author</strong></p><p>First published in 2011 by a small press <em>Green Girl</em> was quickly named one of the best books of the year. With the fierce emotional and intellectual power of such classics as Jean Rhys's <em>Good Morning Midnight</em> Sylvia Plath's <em>The Bell Jar</em> and Clarice Lispector's <em>The Hour of the Star</em> Kate Zambreno's novel <em>Green Girl</em> is a provocative sharply etched portrait of a young woman navigating the spectrum between anomie and epiphany. </p><p>Zambreno's heroine Ruth is a young American in London kin to Jean Seberg gamines and contemporary celebutantes by day spritzing perfume at the department store she calls Horrids by night trying desperately to navigate a world colored by the unwanted gaze of others and the uncertainty of her own self-regard. </p><p>Ruth the green girl joins the canon of young people existing in that important frightening and exhilarating period of drift and anxiety between youth and adulthood and her story is told through the eyes of one of the most surprising and unforgettable narrators in recent fiction--a voice at once distanced and maternal indulgent yet blackly funny. And the result is a piercing yet humane meditation on alienation consumerism the city self-awareness and desire by a novelist who has been compared with Jean Rhys Virginia Woolf and Elfriede Jelinek.</p>