Gina Misiroglu 
Girls Like Us 
Forty Extraordinary Women Celebrate Girlhood in Story, Poetry, and Song

We all have moments from childhood that have molded our perceptions of ourselves and our lives. In Girls Like Us forty accomplished and influential women share these tender and uplifting moments from their own childhoods and teenage years. Isabel Allende tells of her parents’ priceless gift in encouraging her to express her creativity; Faye Wattleton describes how a checkered and difficult childhood shaped her into the determined leader she is today; novelist Amy Tan explores the life of a young girl and her relationship to her mother in The Joy Luck Club. The book includes photographs of some of the contributors at the age they appear in their stories, as well as brief biographies of each. Girls Like Us celebrates the poignant coming-of-age moments experienced by prominent women of this century. This book is a great anthology for everyone wishing to cultivate and remember what it is to be young again.

Circa l’autore

Gina Misiroglu is a twelve-year veteran of the West Coast publishing
industry, specializing in the development and editing of lifestyle, current
issues, and women’s studies titles. Of the many titles Misiroglu has
contributed to, she is particularly proud of her co-authorship of Space
Jammin’: Michael and Bugs Hit the Big Screen and her work as editor and
contributing writer to Lay Down Body: Living History in Africa-American
Cemeteries, a reference book on African-American genealogy, history,
and folklore. She is currently at work on her second anthology for New
World Library.