What to read after Girls I found in my pen?

"Girls I Found in My Pen" is a collection of poems about the wrong women. It tells the stories of women who are irredeemable, uncharacteristic, silenced but most importantly women who are lost in the propagation of the monolith of womanhood. These women aren't just victims or goddesses or beautiful pillars of endurance; they don't fit neatly inside roles, and adjectives alone cannot define their identity. It is not the tale of all women, but stories told in a way that women aren't often allowed to tell them, with specific detail and without scruples. These poems address women as real people with varying levels of morality, active conflicts and different experiences, without reducing the experience of womanhood to suffering, sexuality or beauty alone. In colourful and straightforward narratives the book moves from stories of young girls struggling with the concept of virtue and innocence to tales of young women trying to understand the politics of womanhood through the lives of older women who are reduced to just a number. It contains the minuatae of unusual experiences faced by women like being held captive by a kidnapper or going through life as a con woman but even in the esoteric nature of the subject matter, it allows you to vicariously experience circumstances you may never have thought to imagine before and somehow still relate to them. "Girls I Found in my Pen" is a testament to the fact that there is no one-size-fits-all version of womanhood.