m.'s Reviews > The Road to the City

over the years i've grown to know exactly if i will like a book before i pick it up, and i'm right almost all the time. so it's always a pleasant surprise when a story creeps up on me like the road to the city did. such an accurate and straightforward representation of girlhood and of how it oppressive it is. ginzburg masterfully narrates the struggle of non-identity, of the "going-alongness" that is being a girl growing into a woman, of not knowing your body and yourself and therefore constantly missing out. 'very well, then, i'm a cold fish. and what are you?' he looked at me for a minute and then said: 'you're just a poor little girl.'