A review by firewordsparkler
Blueprints for Building Better Girls: Fiction by Elissa Schappell

5.0

This collection of connected short stories is fantastic. Every story, every hurt, and every struggle are not symptoms of the disease called womanhood, but are symptoms of living. In some books, it's hard to find even one multidimensional female character. This gives us many. It shows how people's lives change from childhood to adulthood and why they do. How people are not static creatures that only have one personality throughout their lives. They can go from being the bad girl to the loving mother, from the free spirit to the desperate wife, and so on. I definitely have not done this book and this review justice, so I'll just end with a quote from the book itself.

"Don't be a fool. There's no such thing as just a girl."