Reading Like a Girl

By examining the novels of critically and commercially successful authors such as Sarah Dessen ( Someone Like You ), Stephenie Meyer (the Twilight series), and Laurie Halse Anderson ( Speak ), Reading Like a Girl: Narrative Intimacy in Contemporary American Young Adult Literature explores the use of narrative intimacy as a means of reflecting and reinforcing larger, often contradictory, cultural expectations regarding adolescent women, interpersonal relationships, and intimacy. Reading Like a Gi