![]() ![]() ![]() “I thought to make a list of all the things girls are not allowed to do,” she writes. Perkin (the goat boy) and Gerd (the miller’s son) polish bones from the kitchen and fasten them to their shoes to go ice skating, but Birdy isn’t allowed. In a memorable moment from the book, a river in Stonebridge freezes over. Read More: The 52 Most Anticipated Movies of Fall 2022 What stayed the same in the adaptationįrom the page to the screen, Birdy retains the timeless voice that made her an epitome of rebellion to fiercely independent teenage girls. “It taught us about consent, showed us that we alone owned our bodies and minds and futures.” “For a particular age bracket of millennial women, this book was our first feminist guidebook,” writes Jeanna Kadlec for Nylon. ![]() ![]() But the backbone of the book-visceral frustration with the unfairness of becoming a woman in society-rings clear and true through the centuries. From there unfolds a regular, angsty, wide-eyed account of a 14-year-old girl’s daily life in 1290: embroidery, lady lessons, fleas, family tensions, and the looming threat of an arranged marriage. ![]()
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