How To Be a Heroine: Or, What I’ve Learned From Reading Too Much

One part feminist literary critique, one part nostalgia for classic literature, and one part memoir of life growing up in an Iraqi-Jewish community, this book is perfect for those of us who grew up with literary heroines by our sides. Ellis revisits the various female characters that inspired her, and doesn’t restrict heroines to just books, including everything from Disney’s Sleeping Beauty to Buffy the Vampire Slayer.