Enter to win 'Girlhood: Teens Around the World in Their Own Voices' by Masuma Ahuja
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I’ve been waiting for this book to finally make its way to me for months now—and I can’t wait to share a copy with one of you. Girlhood: Teens Around the World in Their Own Voices by journalist Masuma Ahuja actually started off as a popular series for The Washington Post’s The Lily in 2018 and is now a scrapbook-style book chronicling the lives, dreams and setbacks of 30 teens across 27 countries through their own photos, diary entries and more. Entries for this giveaway will be accepted through Friday, March 12 at 8 p.m. EST. PSA: This giveaway is only open to paying subscribers or comps (gifted subscriptions). If you’re interested in subscribing but haven’t yet—click here!
From Ahuja, in The Lily:
As I put this book together, I thought often about the only experience of girlhood that I am intimately familiar with: my own. My teenage years were split across three continents, and I rarely encountered stories like mine in popular culture. I read a lot growing up, but there were so few books about girls whose lives looked anything like mine. I caught glimpses in places, but they were rare. So I spent many of my teenage years explaining my other homes to people who often had only a few cultural references or stereotypes — America is like “Friends” and the “Baby Sitters Club,” and India is the land of snake charmers. But in reality, life was so much more than any of these stereotypes or single stories.
In putting together this book, I found echoes of the emotions and types of experiences of my own teenage years. While the specifics of each life are different — and make for colorful and rich stories — many of the themes that teenage girls experience and explore are similar: a longing for the adventures ahead, dreams burning big and bright, and the angst and growing pains of figuring out their own place in the world.
I hope that as you read these stories and are transported around the globe, you find glimpses of yourself in unexpected corners, too.
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