Girl Trouble

Praise for Girl Trouble
“This book is so goddamn good, you’ll plotz!” —Lidia Yuknavitch, author of The Chronology of Water

“I was mesmerized by Girl Trouble. Kerry Cohen writes about friendship and longing with such searching intensity, I simply could not put the book down until I’d read it all. Girl Trouble is raw, real, and revelatory.” —Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

“Kerry Cohen traces a delicate thread that runs thorough so many women’s lives—from our earliest years to our last, we navigate the intricacies of female friendship. Cohen’s concise portraits bring to life all those girls we knew—and loved madly and hated, and envied and feared—carrying the reader from the years when girlhood itself felt as tender and raw as a bruise, through the emotional minefield of friendships in early womanhood, to the later laughter and ease that we finally are able to share with our female friends. A small treasure.” —Marya Hornbacher, author of Madness: A Bipolar Life

“A clear and concise survey of one woman’s journey through a life’s worth of difficult and sometimes devastating female friendships. Cohen bravely details how one’s family of origin impacts our later relationships, and accurately demonstrates how we must first sort ourselves out before we can establish healthy bonds with others.” —Blake Nelson, author of The City Wants You Alone

Praise for Loose Girl
“Cohen’s brutal honesty about her relentless request for companionship is refreshingly relatable.” —Entertainment Weekly

“Cohen recounts her harrowing litany of hookups through clear, poignant, spare-no-details prose.” —Marie Claire

“Sensual yet sophisticated . . . explores why people yearn to be loved.” —Self

“A fascinating cautionary tale . . . Loose Girl will make you contemplate your own relationships.” —Zink

“Her candor may help under-21 readers steer clear of the whole mess, while those who survived similar ordeals will appreciate her tale of survival.” —Booklist

“Cohen’s training as a psychotherapist is clearly evident. She reveals an impressive analytic prowess as she exposes the damaging self-effacement that underlies the seeming assertion involved in attracting men to her and then driving them away . . . An important look at the dynamics of female sexual power and promiscuity in general.” —Kirkus Reviews