Description
Book SynopsisA feminist coming-of-age comedy that followstheendless humiliations, unrequited obsessions, and all-consuming friendships of fifteen-year-old Evia Birtwhistle as she leads a body hair positive revolution at her school.Fifteen-year-old Evia Birtwhistle can?t seem to catch a break. At home, she must deal with her free-spirited mom, and at school she?s the target of ridicule for stating basic truths: like that girls have body hair!
When her BFF Frankie?who has facial hair due to her PCOS?becomes the target of school bullies, Evia decides that enough is enough and creates the ?Hairy Girls? Club.?
Leading a feminist movement at school is not easy. Boys often look at Evia like she?s a total weirdo, and the self-proclaimed ?smoothalicious? girls start their own campaign in retaliation. As Evia struggles with feeling strong enough to lead, and questions how to be a good friend to Frankie, she falls back on the best thing she has?hope. Her message is simple: We CAN make this world a more accepting, less judgmental place for girls to live in…one hairy leg at a time!
