THE GIRLS - Emma Cline

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~ Trade Paperback ~ Winner of the Shirley Jackson Award for Novel - 2016 Evie Boyd recounts her time in Northern California, during the violent end of the 1960s when she found hers elf caught up in the daring and freeing world of a group of girls, and their charismatic leader . . . An indelible portrait of girls, the women they become, and that moment in life when everything can go horribly wrong this stunning debut novel is gorgeously written with razor-sharp precision and startling psycological insight. The Girls is perfect for readers of Jeffrey Eugenides’s The Virgin Suicides and Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad. “Spellbinding, The Girls is a seductive and arresting coming-of-age story.” -- The New York Times Book Review Show more