cover image Nerves Out Loud: Critical Moments in the Lives of Seven Teen Girls

Nerves Out Loud: Critical Moments in the Lives of Seven Teen Girls

. Annick Press, $19.95 (112pp) ISBN 978-1-55037-693-7

Real-world stories, reflections written by now-grown women, chronicle such subjects as body image, sexuality, mental instability and incest in Nerves Out Loud: Critical Moments in the Lives of Seven Teen Girls, edited by Susan Musgrave (who also pens one of the selections). A powerful look back by women who made it through. (Oct.)