Home › Biography & Autobiography › Girl Gone Wild

Girl Gone Wild

by Courtney Kocak

Dreams, ambition, and Hollywood detours

Regular price $20.79 USD
Regular price $34.65 USD Sale price $20.79 USD
Save 40%

Paperback New

Delivery to your door
In stock·Dispatches in 1–2 business days
Standard shipping* from $4.35
Standard shipping transit* 5–8 business days after dispatch

Faster options are available.

Rates and delivery estimates depend on your destination and item quantity. Estimates are informational only; the final shipping method and rate are selected at checkout.

Secure checkout
American Express Apple Pay DiscoverGoogle Pay Mastercard PayPalVisa
30-day eligible returns Returns & refunds policy

AlbakiReads Editorial

Dreams, ambition, and Hollywood detours

In this memoir-in-essays, Courtney Kocak recounts a path from small-town girlhood toward work as a professional artist, including an episode selling T-shirts on the Girls Gone Wild bus. The collection examines what happens when the pursuit of a dream becomes a trap, against a backdrop of drugs, sex, and misogyny. Its coming-of-age arc also traces a transformation from girlhood to womanhood, with the author presenting the experience through wry reflection and candid self-accounting.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in memoirs about ambition and pursuing creative work.
  • Readers seeking coming-of-age essays that address misogyny, sex, and drugs.
  • Readers curious about accounts of Hollywood life and unconventional work experiences.

Themes

Ambition and the pursuit of dreamsComing of ageMisogynyArtistic workHollywood experiences

Based on publisher information and book metadata.

Book overview

The Hollywood Misadventures of a Small-Town Girl

Tales of ambition, delusion, drugs, sex, and misogyny... including selling T-shirts on the Girls Gone Wild bus

 

GIRL GONE WILD is a collection of exploits and delusions about chasing your dreams with reckless abandon and what happens when their pursuit becomes a new kind of trap. In this memoir-in-essays, Kocak takes readers along on her heady metamorphosis from girl to woman and from dreamer to professional artist, as she is transformed in this unwitting feminist coming-of-age. It's a wild, cringeworthy, and often heartbreaking tale, but with Kocak's wry wit and clear-eyed accounting, it's nothing short of captivating.

Shipping & returnsShipping options, delivery timing, and our return policy.

In-stock items normally dispatch within 1–2 business days. The ZIP-code estimator on this page is informational only; the final shipping method, price, and availability are confirmed at checkout for your full order.

For the initial delivery estimate we use these transit windows after dispatch: Standard 5–8 business days, Expedited 2–4 business days, and Priority 1–2 business days. Holiday delays are not included.

Eligible items can be returned within 30 days in accordance with our return policy.

Customer reviews