The Stranger, April 26th, 2007
Wild Youth Rhode Does Not Improve with Age by Lindy West IN 1944, 9-year-old Rhoda (the vaguely autobiographical creation of author Ellen Gilchrist) hates God's guts. She hates the guts of a lot of people and things-the Japanese, her impending period, her older brother Dudley-and, like many little girls in many books, both fears and idolizes her father. Rhoda is fierce, difficult, and proto-feminist: "she is powerful and she wins." The stories about her childhood (exiled from the boys' games, she "prayed that they would get polio") and petulant teenage years ("she started smoking because th...
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