Some Girls Do

By Teresa McWhirter

A gritty, revelatory portrait of twenty something life in the modern urban jungle, Some Girls Do depicts a group of tough, independent, and sexual young women. Lily, Jezebel, Hannah, Carrotgirl, Em, and Blue are not yet ready to commit to careers -- or anything else. In sharp yet poetic prose that captures the rhythm of the streets, Teresa McWhirter offers an acute yet surprisingly tender glance into the urban underbelly and the lives and dreams of the seemingly ambitionless generation of young people who inhabit it.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1551924595
• ISBN13: 9781551924595
• Release Date: June 2004
• Publisher: Raincoast Books, Polestar
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.5" x 0.5" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

The Urban Tribe

Teresa McWhirter's Some Girls Do was my first foray into the harsh and trashy world of urban literature. I loved it. I had no doubt after reading the novel that the characters--Carrotgirl, Gritboy, Blue, Em, Jezebel and Beatrice--were composites of real people. There was an authenticity to their hardness and struggles and also to their moments of earnestness and desire for other things.In his or her own way, each character rebels against conformity but still seeks comfort, love and the communal experience of the urban tribe. Their lives are turbulent and gritty, but the female characters especially exhibit a sense of optimism and survival that made me want to keep reading this book.