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The Girls
A Mystery Novel by Emma Cline
Subgenres:
- Coming-of-Age,
- Cult Fiction,
- 1960s Northern California
This book is for you if you're into...
- Coming-of-age stories set in late 1960s Northern California
- Obsessive friendships with dangerous, magnetic older girls
- Cult narratives where belonging blurs with menace
From Little Stack
California, summer 1969. Fourteen-year-old Evie’s best friend isn’t talking to her, the boy she likes has run away with another girl, and her mum is busy with her boyfriend. She feels discarded and desperate for someone to notice her. To want her around. Then she meets Suzanne and the girls. Intoxicated by Suzanne, she follows them back to their dilapidated ranch and meets Russell, the man in charge of it all.
What follows are heady summer days as Evie finally finds a place to belong. But something dark is on the horizon. Something she didn’t foresee. Were there signs she missed? Could she have stopped it? Based on the infamous Manson murders, this is an exhilarating thriller perfect for sunny summer days.
THE INSTANT BESTSELLER • An indelible portrait of girls, the women they become, and that moment in life when everything can go horribly wrong.
Northern California, during the violent end of the 1960s. At the start of summer, a lonely and thoughtful teenager, Evie Boyd, sees a group of girls in the park, and is immediately caught by their freedom, their careless dress, their dangerous aura of abandon.
Soon, Evie is in thrall to Suzanne, a mesmerizing older girl, and is drawn into the circle of a soon-to-be infamous cult and the man who is its charismatic leader. Hidden in the hills, their sprawling ranch is eerie and run down, but to Evie, it is exotic, thrilling, charged—a place where she feels desperate to be accepted.
As she spends more time away from her mother and the rhythms of her daily life, and as her obsession with Suzanne intensifies, Evie does not realize she is coming closer and closer to unthinkable violence.
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