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I Am a Magical Teenage Princess

234 pages · 2012 · Rating 3.5

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I Am a Magical Teenage Princess is a thematically linked collection of short stories celebrating and re-examining 1960s and contemporary culture. The stories feature popular icons such as Betty and Veronica and Wonder Woman, magnifying the characters via a literary lens of wit and pathos. In Surfer Girl , the title character drifts through time, tormented by the bizarre cliches of drive-in B-movies. Another Girl, Another Planet depicts a reluctant teenage astronaut idling away her post-apocalyptic adolescence huffing gasoline and fooling around with her five brutish shipmates, all named Tommy. Habit Patterns shows us the beleaguered subject of an educational hygiene film who longs to break free from the cruel social strictures of her celluloid world.

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