“The Girl’s Guide” A Review and Q&A with Melissa Kirsch

I am a mom of boys. What I know about raising girls could fit neatly on the head of a pin. But here is one of the things that would be atop that pinhead: if I were sending a daughter out into the world I would make sure she was tightly gripping a copy of Melissa Kirsch’s The Girl’s Guide: Getting the hang of your whole complicated, unpredictable, impossibly amazing life.In a single volume Kirsch covers the waterfront of a young woman’s life. She calls on experts and her own voluminous researc...