NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An
indelible portrait of girls, the women they become, and that moment in
life when everything can go horribly wrong—this stunning first novel is
perfect for readers of Jeffrey Eugenides’s The Virgin Suicides and Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND NPR
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. 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.Praise for The Girls“Spellbinding
. . . A seductive and arresting coming-of-age story hinged on Charles
Manson, told in sentences at times so finely wrought they could almost
be worn as jewelry . . . [Emma] Cline gorgeously maps the topography of
one loneliness-ravaged adolescent heart. She gives us the fictional
truth of a girl chasing danger beyond her comprehension, in a Summer of
Longing and Loss.â€â€”The New York Times Book Review“[The Girls reimagines] the American novel . . . Like Mary Gaitskill’s Veronica or Lorrie Moore’s Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?, The Girls captures a defining friendship in its full humanity with a touch of rock-memoir, tell-it-like-it-really-was attitude.â€â€”Vogue“Debut
novels like this are rare, indeed. . . . The most remarkable quality of
this novel is Cline’s ability to articulate the anxieties of
adolescence in language that’s gorgeously poetic without mangling the
authenticity of a teenager’s consciousness. The adult’s melancholy
reflection and the girl’s swelling impetuousness are flawlessly braided
together. . . . For a story that traffics in the lurid notoriety of the
Manson murders, The Girls is an extraordinary act of restraint.
With the maturity of a writer twice her age, Cline has written a wise
novel that’s never showy: a quiet, seething confession of yearning and
terror.â€â€”The Washington Post“Emma Cline has an
unparalleled eye for the intricacies of girlhood, turning the stuff of
myth into something altogether more intimate. She reminds us that behind
so many of our culture’s fables exists a girl: unseen, unheard, angry.
This book will break your heart and blow your mind.â€â€”Lena Dunham “Emma Cline’s first novel positively hums with fresh, startling, luminous prose. The Girls announces the arrival of a thrilling new voice in American fiction.â€â€”Jennifer Egan “I don’t know which is more amazing, Emma Cline’s understanding of human beings or her mastery of language.â€â€”Mark Haddon, New York Times bestselling author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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