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Overview

Green Girl is the Bell Jar for today - an existential novel about Ruth, a young American in London, kin to Jean Seberg gamines and contemporary celebutantes. Ruth works a string of meaningless jobs: perfume spritzer at a department store she calls Horrid's, clothes-folder, and a shopgirl at a sex shop. Ruth is looked at constantly- something she craves and abhors. She is followed by a mysterious narrator, the voice equally violent and maternal. Ruth and her toxic friend, Agnes, are obsessed with cosmetics and fashion and film, with boys, with themselves, and with each other. Green Girl is about that important and frightening and exhilarating period of being adrift and screwing up, a time when drunken hook-ups and infatuations, nervous breakdowns, and ecstatic epiphanies are the order of the day.

Editorial Reviews

Blake Butler
Zambreno's wickedly compassionate lenses seems to be not only a kind of wonderful novel of self-exploration and awakening, but a much needed tap on the face to remember where we are and how what comes out of us both is of us and mirrored off of those we touch.
—HTML Giant
James Greer
The book is by turns bildungsroman, sociological study, deconstruction, polemic, and live-streamed dialogue with Jean Rhys, Clarice Lispector, Simone de Beauvoir, Virginia Woolf, the Bible, Roland Barthes, and most of Western European modernism by way of Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project. Green Girl is ambitious in a way few works of fiction are, and it's certainly more ambitious than the kind of fiction Zambreno is taking on: the single-girl-seeking-not-sure-what-exactly novel that has been pigeonholed as "chick lit" at least since Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones's Diary, which Green Girl draws from (its cosmopolitan London setting) and pitches against (its implied self-definition through romance).
—Bookforum
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Jennifer Brough
A deeply poetic, linguistically playful novel exploring the consciousness and questions of self experienced by Ruth, the unstable heroine that many will identify with, perhaps too easily. Zambreno's second novel is richly inundated with cultural references that assemble a troubling jigsaw of a young woman's battle between the simultaneous need to be observed, and to be invisible. This painfully compulsive read of a beautiful soul's struggle for survival against the London masses on the Tube, streets, and department stores leaves the reader longing for Ruth's resolution. Yet she remains an enigma, caught between wanting to live, and to abandon her own life.
—WhatsOn (UK)
Lightsey Darst
Zambreno's cruelty is only the world's, the world that has provided for girls like Ruth endless dead-end heroines, beauties who, if they do anything at all, mostly undo.
—Bookslut
Richard Thomas
There have been comparisons to Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, and I think that is a good place to start, but somewhere in here there is also the violence and danger of the misanthropic American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis, and the work of Mary Gaitskill.
—The Nervous Breakdown

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780983022633
  • Publisher: Emergency Press
  • Publication date: 10/18/2011
  • Pages: 268
  • Sales rank: 287,025
  • Product dimensions: 5.83 (w) x 8.27 (h) x 0.61 (d)

Meet the Author

Kate Zambreno is the author of the novel O Fallen Angel (Chiasmus Press). Her blog, Frances Farmer Is My Sister, has partially inspired a book of literary essays to be published by Semiotext(e)'s Active Agents Series in spring, 2012. She is the prose editor at Nightboat Books, and a member of the Belladonna* Collaborative.
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