Summer Read: "The Girls" by Emma Cline
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Adolescence is never easy. No matter the decade . . .
If you’re lost, they’ll find you . . .
Evie Boyd is fourteen and desperate to be noticed.
It’s the summer of 1969 and restless, empty days stretch ahead of her. Until she sees them. The girls. Hair long and uncombed, jewelry catching the sun. Their careless dress spoke of freedom. And at their center, Suzanne, wild-haired and beautiful.
If not for Suzanne, she might not have gone. But, intoxicated by her and the life she promises, Evie follows the girls back to the decaying ranch where they live. To her, it is exotic, thrilling, and a place where she needs to be accepted. Because Evie isn't ready to return to her dull, embarrassing excuse for a life.
As she spends more time away from her mother and the rhythms of her daily life, the more her obsession with Suzanne intensifies. Evie does not realize she is coming closer and closer to the brink. To that moment in a girl’s life when everything can go horribly wrong.
“Poor girls. The world fattens them on the promise of love.” –The Girls / Emma Cline
355 pgs
- Shirley Jackson Award - Novel (2016)
- GoodReads Best Fiction - Nominee (2016)
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Mystery/Thriller (2016)