Brentwood - Caitlin Moran discusses "How to Build a Girl" with Amanda de Cadenet

Caitlin Moran at Diesel Bookstore in BrentwoodDiesel, A Bookstore in Brentwood welcomes author Caitlin Moran to the store to discuss and sign her humorous coming of age novel, How to Build a Girl on Monday, July 13th at 6:30pm. Joining her in conversation will be writer/producer Amanda de Cadenet.

What do you do in your teenage years when you realize what your parents taught you wasn't enough? You must go out and find books and poetry and pop songs and bad heroes--and build yourself. It's 1990. Johanna Morrigan, fourteen, has shamed herself so badly on local TV that she decides that there's no point in being Johanna anymore and reinvents herself as Dolly Wilde--fast-talking, hard-drinking gothic hero and full-time Lady Sex Adventurer. She will save her poverty-stricken Bohemian family by becoming a writer. By sixteen, she's smoking cigarettes, getting drunk, and working for a music paper. She's writing pornographic letters to rock stars, having all the kinds of sex with all the kinds of men, and eviscerating bands in reviews of 600 words or less. But what happens when Johanna realizes she's built Dolly with a fatal flaw? Is a box full of records, a wall full of posters, and a head full of paperbacks enough to build a girl after all?

Caitlin Moran was named the Columnist of the Year by the British Press Awards in 2010 and Critic and Interviewer of the Year in 2011 for her work at the Times of London. Her debut book, How to Be a Woman, won the 2011 Galaxy Book of the Year Award and was an instant New York Times bestseller. You can follow Caitlin on Twitter @caitlinmoran.

Amanda de Cadenet is a fashion and portrait photographer, a writer, producer and a director. She published her first photography book Rare Birds in 2010 and was the youngest woman to shoot a Vogue magazine cover. Amanda created and produced with Demi Moore for Lifetime Television, a series called The Conversation with Amanda de Cadenet. In addition to reaching a television audience in 18 countries, The Conversation lives online as an active community and website. She lives in LA with her children and husband.

Event date: 
Monday, July 13, 2015 - 6:30pm to 7:30pm
Event address: 
DIESEL, A Bookstore
225 26th St.
Santa Monica, CA 90402
How to Build a Girl: A Novel By Caitlin Moran Cover Image
$16.99
ISBN: 9780062335982
Availability: Not On Our Shelves - Available within 1 to 5 Days
Published: Harper Perennial - June 30th, 2015