Anthropology of an American Girl: A Novel

Hilary Thayer Hamann

Random House Publishing Group, May 25, 2010 - Fiction - 592 pages

This is what it’s like to be a high-school-age girl.
To forsake the boyfriend you once adored.
To meet the love of your life, who just happens to be your teacher.
To discover for the first time the power of your body and mind.
 
This is what it’s like to be a college-age woman.
To live through heartbreak.
To suffer the consequences of your choices.
To depend on others for survival but to have no one to trust but yourself.
 
This is Anthropology of an American Girl.
A literary sensation, this extraordinarily candid novel about the experience of growing up female in America will strike a nerve in readers of all ages.

BONUS: This edition contains an Anthropology of an American Girl discussion guide.
 

 
 
 
 
 

Contents

• Section 1: 3
• Section 2: 38
• Section 3: 60
• Section 4: 73
• Section 5: 81
• Section 6: 88
• Section 7: 116
• Section 8: 122
• Section 9: 137
• Section 10: 159
• Section 11: 162
• Section 12: 185
• Section 13: 203
• Section 14: 217
• Section 15: 219
• Section 16: 224
• Section 17: 235
• Section 18: 275
• Section 19: 297
• Section 20: 300
• Section 21: 333
• Section 22: 369
• Section 23: 389
• Section 24: 415
• Section 25: 432
• Section 26: 457
• Section 27: 478
• Section 28: 521
• Section 29: 526
• Section 30: 537
• Section 31: 576
• Section 32: 589
• Section 33: 599
• Section 34: 601
• Section 35: 607
• Section 36: 609

About the author

Hilary Thayer Hamann was born and raised in New York. After her parents divorced, she was shuttled between their respective homes in the Hamptons and the Bronx. She attended New York University, where she received a B.F.A. in Film & Television Production and Dramatic Writing from Tisch School of the Arts, an M.A. in Cinema Studies from the Graduate School of Arts and Science, and a Certificate in Anthropological Filmmaking from NYU’s Center for Media, Culture, and History.
 
Ms. Hamann edited and contributed to Categories—On The Beauty of Physics (2006), an interdisciplinary educational book that was included in Louisiana State University’s list of top 25 non-fiction books written since 1950.
 
As the assistant to Jacques d’Amboise, founder and artistic director of the National Dance Institute, Ms. Hamann produced We Real Cool, a short film based on the Gwendolyn Brooks poem, directed by Academy Award-winning director Emile Ardolino. She also coordinated an international exchange with students from America and the then Soviet Union based on literature, music, and art. She has worked in New York’s film, publishing, and entertainment industries, and is co-director of Films on the Haywall, a classic film series in Bridgehampton, New York.
 
Ms. Hamann lives in Manhattan and on Long Island.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Anthropology of an American Girl: A Novel
• Author: Hilary Thayer Hamann
• Edition: unabridged
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group, 2010
• ISBN: 1588369382, 9781588369383
• Length: 592 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Coming of Age; Fiction / Literary; Fiction / Women