J Girls: A Reality Show

Jocelyn, Jodie, Jennifer, Jacqui, Joelle. Ignoring the optimistic advice of elders, these five working—class teens in the Rust Belt band together in their embrace of bad behavior and poor taste as they navigate sexuality and identity with loud—mouthed joy and clear—eyed cynicism.

Winner of the 2021 Blue Light Books Prize, Rochelle Hurt's The J Girls: A Reality Show is a tribute to the grit and glitter of millennial girlhood and a testament to its dangers and traumas. Hurt's creative, genre—...