Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s “Learned”

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY MICHIKO KAKUTANI, THE NEW YORK TIMESNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY BUZZFEED, THE GLOBE AND MAIL, AND LIBRARY JOURNALFor readers of Nora Ephron, Tina Fey, and David Sedaris, this hilarious, smart, and fiercely candid assortment of private essays establishes Lena Dunham—the acclaimed creator, producer, and star of HBO’s Women—as one of the unique younger abilities writing right now.   In Not That Form of Woman, Dunham illuminates the experiences which can be a part of making one’s means on the earth: falling in love, feeling alone, being ten kilos obese regardless of consuming solely well being meals, having to show your self in a room stuffed with males twice your age, discovering real love, and most of all, having the heart to consider that your story is one which deserves to be informed.   “Take My Virginity (No Actually, Take It)” is the account of Dunham’s first time, and the way her expectations of intercourse didn’t fairly dwell as much as the precise occasion (“No floodgate had been opened, no vault of true womanhood unlocked”); “Women & Jerks” explores her former attraction to less-than-nice guys—guys who had perfected the “dynamic of disrespect” she discovered so intriguing; “Is This Even Actual?” is a meditation on her lifelong obsession with dying and dying—what she calls her “genetically predestined morbidity.” And in “I Didn’t F*** Them, however They Yelled at Me,” she imagines the tell-all she is going to write when she is eighty and previous caring, capable of replicate actually on the sexism and condescension she has encountered in Hollywood, the place ladies are “handled just like the paper thingies that shield glasses in resort bogs—obligatory however infinitely disposable.”   Exuberant, transferring, and keenly noticed, Not That Form of Woman is a sequence of dispatches from the frontlines of the battle that’s rising up. “I’m already predicting my future disgrace at pondering I had something to give you,” Dunham writes. “But when I can take what I’ve realized and make one menial job simpler for you, or forestall you from having the form of intercourse the place you are feeling it’s essential to hold your sneakers on in case you need to run away in the course of the act, then each misstep of mine may have been worthwhile.”Reward for Not That Form of Woman  “The gifted Ms. Dunham not solely writes with observant precision, but additionally brings a measure of perspective, nostalgia and an older particular person’s kind of knowledge to her portrait of her (not all that a lot) youthful self and her world. . . . As acute and heartfelt as it’s humorous.”—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Instances   “It’s not Lena Dunham’s candor that makes me gasp. Relatively, it’s her writing—which is filled with surprises the place you least anticipate them. A nice, subversive ebook.”—David Sedaris   “This ebook needs to be required studying for anybody who thinks they perceive the expertise of being a younger lady in our tradition. I assumed I knew the creator fairly effectively, and I discovered many (not altogether welcome) surprises.”—Carroll Dunham   “Witty, illuminating, maddening, bracingly bleak . . . [Dunham] is a real artist, and a disturber of the order.”—The Atlantic   “As Dunham proves past a shadow of a doubt in Not That Form of Woman, she’s not remotely liable to providing up the identical outdated sentimental tales we’ve learn dozens of occasions.”—The Los Angeles Evaluate of Books