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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2021 Blue Light Books Prize, Rochelle Hurt's The J Girls: A Reality Show is a tribute to the grit and glitter of millennial girlhood, a testament to its dangers and traumas, and an elegy for adolescent friendships.
Trade ReviewStartling and familiar, sometimes vulgar, often hilarious, and very sure of itself, The J Girls is, without a doubt, one of the best books I'll read this year.
-- Lisa Summe * Cleveland Review of Books *
Table of ContentsPreface
Cast List
Opening Credits: Adoration of the J Girls
Episode 1: The J Girls Get High
Less is More
Jen's Prayer for Effacement
Wifebeaters
Middling
Thigh High
Ode on My Upspeak
Commercial Break: Bath & Body Works Pastoral
Episode 2: The J Girls Chase Tail
To My '81 Chevy Celebrity
Weeknight
Jen's Prayer for Containment
Ode to the C Word
The Birth of Anger at the Roller Skating Rink
Origins & Outcomes
The Cut Felt Round the World
Commercial Break: Lip Smacker Fantasia
Episode 3: The J Girls Give Face
Pluralizing
Mall Haunts
Glitter Ode
Demolition Derby Queens
Dangling Modifier
Ponytail Politic
Cunts in Girls' Room
oo yay & eye yay
Commercial Break: Wet n Wild Romance
Episode 4: The J Girls Get Caught (on Camera)
Documentary
What the Thief Learned to Take Early
Jen's Prayer for Exposure
Viral
Ode to an Empty Womb
Mimi
Double Negative
Commercial Break: Avon Grotesque
Episode 5: The J Girls Reunion
Y2K Confessions
Episode 6: The J Girls Cash Out
Selfward
Silence is Golden—
Circular Argument
I Could Eat You Up
Who Taught You That One?
Can I Call You Ellie?
McDonald's 4-ever
Possessives
End Credits: Beatitudes for Meek Girls
Acknowledgments
