{"product_id":"9781593761998","title":"A Girl's Guide to Personal Hygiene: True Stories, Illustrated","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eA Girl's Guide to Personal Hygiene\u003c\/i\u003e is everything I never knew I wanted: a disgusting, hilarious, and honest book that pays tribute to the female body and all of its habits and suppurations. It is delightfully and uncomfortably relatable and I love it with my whole self—heart, sweat, bowels, and all.\"—Carmen Maria Machado, author of \u003ci\u003eHer Body and Other Parties\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWe sniff our knickers; we bite our own toenails; we laboriously dig out ingrown hairs: Women aren't as ladylike as people would like to imagine. Using anecdotes collected from hundreds of anonymous sources, this gleefully disgusting illustrated book rewrites our  definition of femininity. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eOne day, the artist Tallulah Pomeroy overhead a conversation between two girls about another friend of theirs they knew in college. Apparently, when this friend had been on tour with the rugby team, she'd drunkenly 'done a shit in the sink.' 'She's not a girl if she did that,' said one to the other. 'She may have a vagina, but she's not a girl.'\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThis exchange made Tallulah laugh, but it also made her think. How many things had her friends done that meant they 'weren't girls?' She made a Facebook group and asked people to submit stories about their 'unladylike' behaviors. The page was soon flooded with more stories than she could have ever imagined: about ear wax and trapped wind, gray pubes and bloody pajamas. It became a community of honest, funny, and supportive women, who, by admitting to things they'd thought were shameful, no longer had to feel ashamed.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eFor \u003ci\u003eA Girl's Guide to Personal Hygiene\u003c\/i\u003e, Tallulah made original illustrations to accompany a selection of those Facebook posts—plus dozens more from an expanded call for submissions—to create an exuberant and galvanizing handbook for all the nasty women of the world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Catapult","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47112910897392,"sku":"9781593761998","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781593761998_p0.jpg?v=1763809948","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781593761998","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}