“How to Build a Girl,” Caitlin Moran’s first novel, tells a comic rites-of-passage tale in the 1990s about a teenager from the British hinterlands who reinvents herself as a rock critic.
“How to Build a Girl,” Caitlin Moran’s first novel, tells a comic coming-of-age tale in the 1990s about a teenager from the British hinterlands who reinvents herself as a rock critic.
The novel, set in a concentration camp, has touched off concerns about sensitivity in Europe, where Mr. Amis’s French and German publishers have rejected it.
