I love Mary Gaitskill's quick wit and even sharper imagery. Her first book, a collection of short stories, is a great, unsentimental stark look at the realities of life.
This account of a woman with gender identity disorder is a painful one, but necessary and meaningful to all of us who have struggled at one time or another with our identity and rebelled against parents and institutions trying to make us something we aren't.
Through the intensely personal and brilliantly honest stories, this anthology of the next generation of young women is a thought-provoking, entertaining, and very important part of modern feminism.
Reviving Ophelia - Mary Bray Pipher
