"OUTSTANDING . . . an stonishing work of imagination - remarkably atmospheric, preternaturally intelligent, and brutally feminist." - The Boston Globe.
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA, DURING THE VIOLENT END OF THE 1960S.
At the start of summer, teenager Evie Boyd sess agroup of girls in the park and is immediatelly struck by their freedom. their careless dress, tehir dangerous aura of abandon. Soon, Evie is in thrall to Suzanne, a mesmerizing older girl, and drawn into the circle of … mehra soon-to-be infamous cult and the man who is its charismatic leader. The group's 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. weniger