Paperback, 255 pages
English language
Published 2014 by Zest Books.
A memoir about friendship, gender, bullies, growth, punk rock, and the power of the perfect outfit . . .
Growing up, Liz Prince wasn’t a girly girl, but she wasn’t exactly one of the guys either (as she learned when her little league baseball coach exiled her to the distant outfield). She was somewhere in between. But with the forces of middle school, high school, parents, friendship, and romance pulling her this way and that, the middle wasn't an easy place to be.
Tomboy follows award-winning author and artist Liz Prince through her early years and explores―with humor, honesty, and poignancy―what it means to "be a girl." From staunchly refuting "girliness" to the point of misogyny, to discovering through the punk community that your identity is whatever you make of it, Tomboy offers a sometimes hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking account of self-discovery in modern America.
I know it’s not deep and insightful and it’s not Alison Bechdel, but damned if I didn’t love this book. It’s got Ariel Scrag references. Middle School lunch boxes. She is thrilled when she gets to wear prescription glasses for the first time!
