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A review by helendeu
Girls in Boys' Cars by Felicity Castagna
4.0
At first, this book felt like a cross between Thelma and Louise and The Catcher in the Rye. Worse, it felt like whiney girls who broke rules for the hell of it but then, it hit its straps and the complexity of the seemingly simple tale became apparent. It created its own path and pulled me along.
These girls were enraged by the treatment they have received and they acted it out in a way that people might find confronting, unacceptable or just plain childish. People often find female anger confronting but the anger these girls had was written so well. Rosa was determined to tell her own story, fed up with others telling women their own stories. Rosa comes across as indifferent but I suspect it was carefully crafted as a shield to protect herself, like those who speak of their trauma in off hand ways as a coping method.
We are seeing finding your identity/coming-of age-stories including female rage appear the way they did for male teens in the 50s/60s. People didn’t like it then but began to accept it. I wonder how long it will take people to accept our stories or if they will?
These girls were enraged by the treatment they have received and they acted it out in a way that people might find confronting, unacceptable or just plain childish. People often find female anger confronting but the anger these girls had was written so well. Rosa was determined to tell her own story, fed up with others telling women their own stories. Rosa comes across as indifferent but I suspect it was carefully crafted as a shield to protect herself, like those who speak of their trauma in off hand ways as a coping method.
We are seeing finding your identity/coming-of age-stories including female rage appear the way they did for male teens in the 50s/60s. People didn’t like it then but began to accept it. I wonder how long it will take people to accept our stories or if they will?