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I think this book is def 'creative nonfiction'. I took a class last semester called "Creative Nonfiction Workshop" and accoring to my prof, the facts can change "so long as the feeling is correct." I really think this is what Robbins is doing.
I feel like the part about the girls actually is fiction. I really think if you strung those chapters together, it would flow like a novel. I also find it highly irratiating with the chapters in between(when she discusses the politcs behind the chapter and what not.
But after reading the chapter about the NGLA, I am begining to doubt her more and more. I went to NGLA. I know I was in the one session she discussed (about the PR War Room) and the opening session about the sterotypes. I *think* I was in one of the other sessions she talked about. She took things WAAAY out of context. Further more, we were in Pittsburgh in March. No one was wearing spagetti straps. Was I wearing my tailored suit? Yes. Was I carring my Coach saddle bag? Yes. But I also wore the same clothes to a conference on intercollegic student athletes.
I haven' finished the book yet...I just had to get that part about the NGLA off my chest.
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