'The Girls,' our new MashReads pick, is your next must-read book
 

'The Girls,' our new MashReads pick, is your next must-read book
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"I looked up because of the laughter, and kept looking because of the girls."

So begins our next MashReads selection, author Emma Cline's debut **vel The Girls.*

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Inspired by the Charles Manson murders in the '60s, The Girls tells the story of 14-year-old Evie Boyd, a teenager growing up in **rthern California in 1969. One day as Evie is preparing to leave for boarding school, she **tices a gang of girls, led by the enigmatic Suzanne, walking through a park in her neighborhood and is immediately drawn to them.

"The sun spiked through the trees like always — the drowsy willows, the hot wind gusting over the picnic blankets — but the familiarity of the day was disturbed by the path the girls cut across the regular world. Sleek and thoughtless as sharks breaching the water." Read more...

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