Live Girls

While some of the imagery was good (plain, un-adjectived but certainly evocative) this book read too much like a standard Americana coming-of-age novel, particularly one for the no-holds-barred, relativity-based Generation Y crowd. Nugent does some interesting work looking at gender performance and identification/identity crisis, but drops the threads of her explorations in an anti-climactic and...more

While some of the imagery was good (plain, un-adjectived but certainly evocative) this book read too much like a standard Americana coming-of-age novel, particularly one for the no-holds-barred, relativity-based Generation Y crowd. Nugent does some interesting work looking at gender performance and identification/identity crisis, but drops the threads of her explorations in an anti-climactic and somewhat flat ending.   hide