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Good Girl

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Lucy tries so hard to be good. She was always a good student, tries to be a good friend, a good citizen, a good feminist, and now she wants a lover who will give her a good beating, preferably after tying her up.

Dating swings from the sublime to the humiliating, but then Lucy hooks up with someone who challenges her to pursue the writing career she has been letting idle. When she discovers a teen magazine from the 1970s, it sparks her imagination and her life finally seems to come into focus; but as she learns more about how women were treated behind the scenes, she has to decide what to do. How to be true to herself, as chaotic as she believes herself to be; how to be good to those around her; how to survive as a young woman in the still messy media culture of 2015.

Surprising, sexy, and hilarious, Good Girl is a thoughtful and endearing portrait of a young woman unsure of what she's supposed to want from a world where the rules keep changing.

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    • Library Journal

      March 1, 2023

      Lucy has always been a "good girl"--the one with good grades, the good feminist, the good daughter, and even a good Canadian citizen. Now she wants to be a good girl in the bedroom too. Lucy loves to be tied up and longs to please her dominant lover. Then one day, her lover tells her to pursue her writing career, not just talk about it. When Lucy's job as a bookseller introduces her to the 1970s teen magazine Smash, she sets out to learn more about the women--and men--behind the publication. What she learns is messy and complicated, but this knowledge sets her on a path of self-discovery, pointing the way toward confidence and self-love. Fitzpatrick's debut tackles the intricacies of being a mid-2010s career-oriented feminist. Though the topic of BDSM may not be for everyone, Fitzpatrick approaches it with humor, intelligence, and insight. Narrator Mich Anger gives voice to Lucy as she grows from a naive young woman into someone who makes her own decisions and takes control of her future. VERDICT Sharply addressing issues faced by women in media, this sexy and funny novel should appeal to fans of Raven Leilani's Luster and Emma Healey's Best Young Woman Job Book.--Elyssa Everling

      Copyright 2023 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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