''Ophelia Speaks: Adolescent Girls Write About Their Search for Self'' is a 1999 book written by

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and published by HarperCollins. The book is an

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of works by adolescent girls which spent eighteen weeks on ''The New York Times'' Best Seller List. ''

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's'' review singled out "Fight Girl Power" by Emily Carmichael as the best of the collection, praising the essay as a "sophisticated, painful, and amusing meditation on girl power."Quart, Alissa (September 16, 1999)
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to the book was published in 2001, ''

Ophelia's Mom ''Ophelia's Mom: Women Speak Out About Loving and Letting Go of Their Adolescent Daughters'' is a 2001 book written by Nina Shandler and published by Crown Publishing Group. The book is an unofficial sequel A sequel is a work of literature ...

'' written by Sara Shandler's mother,

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, Sara Shandler wrote the foreword to ''Ophelia Speaks''.

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