How to Be a Good Girl

“Essential pandemic reading.”—Vice“How to Be a Good Girl is an utterly compelling blend of lyricism, diary, and criticism that has become my go-to for invoking the brilliant trans-eye view of the agonies and pleasures of heterosexuality. Hood gives voice to ideas I don’t know I need until she speaks.”—Torrey Peters, author of Detransition, Baby“Style-wise, it’s got the disjointed candor of Jenny Zhang’s recent collection My Baby First Birthday and the detached eroticism of Melissa Broder’s Last Sext, but another gift of Hood’s is a literary uniqueness that discourages comparison.”—Vogue

JAMIE HOOD is a critic, memoirist, and poet, and the author of How to Be a Good Girl (Grieveland 2020). Her work has appeared in Bookforum, The Baffler, The Nation, Los Angeles Review of Books, The New Inquiry, Observer, The Drift, SSENSE, Bookforum, Vogue, and elsewhere. She lives in Brooklyn.