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Emma Cline

The Girls

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Girls — their vulnerability, strength, and passion to belong — are at the heart of this stunning first novel for readers of Jeffrey Eugenides’s The Virgin Suicides and Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad. 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, and to that moment in a girl’s life when everything can go horribly wrong. Emma Cline’s remarkable debut novel is gorgeously written and spellbinding, with razor-sharp precision and startling psychological insight. The Girls is a brilliant work of fiction — and an indelible portrait of girls, and of the women they become.
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  • nataliaescortesshared an impression6 years ago
    👍Worth reading
    🎯Worthwhile
    🚀Unputdownable

    Completely intriguing and entertaining. The Girls is the story of how such small moments can unleash such great tragedies.

  • Марина Орловаshared an impression8 years ago
    👍Worth reading
    💀Spooky
    💡Learnt A Lot
    🚀Unputdownable

    I really liked the book. Fantastic insight into the girls' mind and world. Sometimes I had a feeling that it's about me, my adolescence and youth. Of course I don't mean the parts about the cult, killings and drugs. I just mean that the world of a teenaged girl is described perfectly accurate.
    The book also provides some internal logic to that violent killings made by the girls from the Manson family (The Tate murders) . Actually, I found out that the plot is partially based on that famous crime only after I'd finished reading and was browsing through some reviews on the Internet.

  • Мариshared an impression7 years ago
    👍Worth reading
    🌴Beach Bag Book

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    All that time I had spent readying myself, the articles that taught me life was really just a waiting room until someone noticed you — the boys had spent that time becoming themselves.
  • Darya Bukhtoyarovahas quoted7 years ago
    Sasha was quiet. Her silence seemed like a kind of love.
  • Darya Bukhtoyarovahas quoted7 years ago
    My grandmother had told me about getting movie roles — how quickly she was plucked from a group. “That’s the difference,” she’d told me. “All the other girls thought the director was making the choice. But it was really me telling the di

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