The women at the center of these six essential titles are united in their attempts to navigate a host of fresh-off-your-Twitter-feed issues included but not limited to sexism, sizeism, public exhibitionism, boring boyfriends, violent boyfriends, cocaine, the internet, date rape, family secrets, judicial corruption, writer's block, hookup culture, and Eastern European sex slavery. In genres ranging from memoir to crime thriller to short fiction, the scenes—even those that, on the face of it, seem far-fetched—are achingly familiar and all too real.
