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The Girls by Emma Cline

Emma Cline’s tale of a teenage girl in rural Northern California who, after her parents’ separation, falls into a distinctly Mansonoid cult, which promises a lurid collection of sex, drugs, and gore. And, yes, that’s all there, in measured amounts, but this isn’t just another Manson book or another book about the Summer of Love gone wrong. Instead, it’s a collection of gleaming, unexpected sentences that adds up to a portrait of how easily teenage yearning for maturity and community can be steered into domination and horror. The Girls will terrify you, shock you, haunt you — in all the right ways.

—Matthew Zeitlin

Random House / Megan Cline

Harper

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