Hell Is a Teenage Girl

The jacket copy of Juliet Escoria’s fourth book and second story collection, You Are the Snake (Soft Skull, 2024), suggests a boldly feminist, intrepid reading experience—“depths of girlhood and new womanhood and [discovering] oddness, impulse, and yearning,” “subverting expectations about who women can be and what they can write.” The cover is candy pink and delicious, with a big White Stripes-esque whirly pop. A smart, pretty book that promises explorations of “mental health, substance use and recovery, nature, and higher education” within its pages. A hot girl beach read, for sure.