J Girls

Rochelle Hurt is a poet and essayist. Her other books include In Which I Play the Runaway, which won the Barrow Street Book Prize, and The Rusted City: A Novel in Poems. Her work has been included in Poetry magazine and the Best New Poets anthology series, and she's been awarded prizes and fellowships from Poetry International, Arts & Letters, Vermont Studio Center, Jentel, and Yaddo. Originally from Youngstown, Ohio, she now lives in Orlando and teaches in the MFA program at the University of Central Florida.

• Preface Cast List Opening Credits: Adoration of the J Girls Episode 1: The J Girls Get HighLess is More Jen's Prayer for Effacement Wifebeaters Middling Thigh High Ode on My Upspeak Commercial Break: Bath & Body Works Pastoral Episode 2: The J Girls Chase TailTo My '81 Chevy Celebrity Weeknight Jen's Prayer for Containment Ode to the C Word The Birth of Anger at the Roller Skating Rink Origins & Outcomes The Cut Felt Round the World Commercial Break: Lip Smacker Fantasia Episode 3: The J Girls Give FacePluralizing Mall Haunts Glitter Ode Demolition Derby Queens Dangling Modifier Ponytail Politic Cunts in Girls' Room oo yay & eye yay Commercial Break: Wet n Wild Romance Episode 4: The J Girls Get Caught (on Camera)Documentary What the Thief Learned to Take Early Jen's Prayer for Exposure Viral Ode to an Empty Womb Mimi Double Negative Commercial Break: Avon Grotesque Episode 5: The J Girls ReunionY2K Confessions Episode 6: The J Girls Cash OutSelfward Silence is Golden— Circular Argument I Could Eat You Up Who Taught You That One? Can I Call You Ellie? McDonald's 4-ever Possessives End Credits: Beatitudes for Meek Girls Acknowledgments

Startling and familiar, sometimes vulgar, often hilarious, and very sure of itself, The J Girls is, without a doubt, one of the best books I'll read this year.- Lisa Summe (Cleveland Review of Books)