Recorded September 20, 2011 at 192 Books in Manhattan, the author reads from her Blueprints for Building Better Girls (Simon and Schuster). Elissa Schappell's Use Me introduced us to a writer of extraordinary talent. In this book she offers another provocative, keenly observed, and wickedly smart work of fiction that maps America's shifting cultural landscape from the late 1970s to the present day. In these eight darkly funny linked stories, Schappell delves into the lives of an eclectic cast of archetypal female characters—from the high school slut to the good girl, the struggling artist to the college party girl, the wife who yearns for a child to the reluctant mother—to explore the commonly shared but rarely spoken of experiences that build girls into women and women into wives and mothers.
