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The Girls Are Not Fine

by Harnidh Kaur
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9780143483816
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: PRH India Local Print
  • Publisher Imprint: Penguin
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 408
  • Original Price: INR 499.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 400 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): General

Women are taught early that ‘fine’ is the only acceptable answer. Fine at work. Fine at home. Fine in
relationships. Fine in bodies that are always being watched and measured.

The Girls Are Not Fine is about what’s underneath all that fineness. The invisible labour, the emotional maths, the unassuming ways women shrink themselves to fit rooms that were never built for them.

This isn’t a self-help book. It’s a vocabulary. A transfer of language for the things women carry but rarely get to name: the performance of competence, the economics of being ‘low maintenance’, the exhaustion of being the family’s emotional infrastructure while also trying to build a career, a life, a self.

Part confession, part cultural critique, part practical toolkit, it moves through work, money, family, body, friendship and love, not to fix anything, but to finally call it what it is.

And that’s important because:

We’re here, and we’re not carrying it alone.
That’s not nothing. That might be everything.

Harnidh Kaur has been writing since before she knew what to do with the words. Her first book of poetry, The Inability of Words, arrived when she was twenty and was the beginning of a practice that has never really stopped. In the years since, she has been a funder, a builder, and a cultural critic: she served as Head of Fund at WTFund, India’s first non-dilutive grant programme for young founders, built products at Swiggy, and spent a decade writing about what women actually navigate when they try to build something of their own. A Schwarzman Scholar, she has spoken at Harvard Business School, the University of Michigan, and the One Billion Summit. Her newsletter, HK’s Newsletter, finds its way to readers across the world. The Girls Are Not Fine is her first work of non-fiction.

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