Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving American Culture

Although Dead Girls can be a bit meandering at times, it is a very solid bunch of essays which each explore, to some degree or other, America's obsession with the Dead Girl. Bolin discusses the prevalence of the trope in television and movies, in books, and even in real life. Since this is a cobbled together collection of personal essays, she does stray fairly far beyond her chosen topic from time to time, often straying into various aspects of the story of why/how/when she moved to LA (which honestly, I could have done with significantly less of), she does typically find a connection to Dead Girls.

I didn't love it, but I didn't hate it. Total middle of the road, here. When she's "on," Bolin's essays are really good, but she's only on for about half of them in my opinion.

2.5 out of 5 items of rating.

Read it if you think you'll dig it - you just might!

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