The Girls
Emma Cline • 2016
Devastation Rating
cults girlhood 1960s manipulation
Our Take
Evie Boyd is fourteen and peripheral to the Manson-like cult she orbits — which is exactly how Cline positions her, on the edge of violence she barely understands. The novel is about female desire for belonging so acute it overrides self-preservation. The murder is not the horror. The wanting is.
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