This is not here to fix you—it's here to tell the truth you've been avoiding.

It doesn't pretend to have neat lessons or glossy endings. Instead, it sits with the uncomfortable parts of life: the moments you hate yourself for wanting too much, the late nights when you wonder if you'll ever be enough, the days when you can't decide if you want to be admired, loved, or simply left alone.

This is a book that moves like thought itself—circling back, confessing, contradicting, doubting—asking the questions most people are too afraid to say out loud. What if I'm not good? What if beauty will never be mine? What if ambition is just another kind of hunger that never ends? There are no easy answers, but there is honesty. And sometimes, that's what we need most.

You'll see yourself in these pages—not as a hero, not as a villain, but as someone complicated, flawed, and still learning. The Cruelty of a Girl is sharp, funny, and vulnerable all at once, capturing the quiet shame you try to hide, the hunger for attention you deny, and the fleeting clarity that makes the mess bearable.

If you've ever replayed old mistakes until they burned, if you've longed to be loved and feared being seen, if you've measured yourself against others and found yourself smaller—this is for you. This is for the moments when you're tired of pretending, tired of fixing, tired of polishing yourself into someone you don't even recognize. This is for when you want to let it all show, and see what's left standing.