Title: Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s “Learned”
Genre: Humor and Entertainment
Hardcover: 288 pages
Publisher: Random House (September 30, 2014)
ISBN-10: 081299499X, 978-0812994995
A no holds barred, candid take on the major events in her life. The book created a lot of buzz when Lena Dunham, writer and director of the hit show Girls, received a staggering $3 million from Random House. In Not That Kind of Girl, the author advises that if you don’t feel good about yourself, you will end up with people who look at you in a negative light. Talked of in the same breath as Tina Fey, this is how the leading publications covered the book release:
“Nonetheless, the book succeeds in redefining a thorny, pernicious pressure on women. “Having it all” need not mean hitting narrow markers of success – the perfect job/man/body – but instead being able to own your experiences: the good, the bad, the ugly. All of it.”
~ Holly William, The Independent.
“But the book, as a whole, is a lovely, touching, surprisingly sentimental portrait of a woman who, despite repeatedly baring her body and soul to audiences, remains a bit of an enigma: a young woman who sets the agenda, defies classification and seems utterly at home in her own skin.”
~ Heidi Stevens, Chicago Tribune.