Ophelia Speaks: Adolescent Girls Write About Their Search for Self
Author: Sara Shandler
The Barnes & Noble ReviewWhen Sara Shandler was 16, she read psychologist Mary Pipher’s , Reviving Ophelia,. “Horror stories of eating disorders, self-mutilation, abusive relationships floated across the page,” Shandler writes of Pipher’s book on adolescent girls. “Pipher equated our contemporary adolescent experiences to Shakespeare’s ill-fated Ophelia.” Shandler identif….Read More
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