Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s “Learned” by Lena Dunham interested me because I enjoyed Dunham’s movie Tiny Furniture and her HBO series Girls. On one hand she is a raw, unabashed, tell-it-like-it-is young woman and on the other hand she’s a train wreck that I can’t seem to tear my eyes away from.
Dunham’s relationship to food, her body, men, her family, education, and death are chronicled in this collection of personal essays. She tells her story in an un-flattering and un-apologetic tone. Some women would be embarrassed by recounting their promiscuity, their inappropriate 5th grade teacher, or their OCD, but Dunham spins them as just another story. Her section on death had a Woody Allen taste to them. I could hear him saying the saying the words with his intonation since the sentiment was so similar.
Dunham has made her mark on the entertainment industry and is branching out to the written word too.
