Girls

This year LILITH’s fall book feature focuses on the elusive crossover category known as “young adult” books. These are volumes that bookstores and libraries often can’t figure out where to shelve. Their designated audience (adolescents) is already browsing freely in the general adult collection, yet adults too can lose and find themselves in this genre. Reviewed here (mostly by LILITH’s cadre of twenty-something interns) are several books that should draw in teens and grownups too; they strike just the right chord about the heartfelt struggle to mature under tough circumstances.