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Title:The Girls
Author:Emma Cline
Book Format:Hardcover
Book Edition:Special Edition
Pages:Pages: 355 pages
Published:June 14th 2016 by Random House
Categories:Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction
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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, and to that moment in a girl’s life when everything can go horribly wrong.

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Original Title: The Girls
ISBN: 081299860X (ISBN13: 9780812998603)
Edition Language: English
Setting: California(United States)
Literary Awards: Shirley Jackson Award for Novel (2016), Los Angeles Times Book Prize Nominee for Mystery/Thriller (2016), The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Nominee for Shortlist (2016), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction (2016)

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A very solid 4 stars. The Girls is loosely based on the Charles Manson cult group and murders in the US in 1969. The story is told from Evie's perspective in two timelines -- at age 14 when she collided with the group and in her later adult years as she thinks back on that part of her life. Emma Cline -- a debut novelist -- does a great job getting into Evie's head -- depicting what could possibly attract a 14 year old to such a squalid and miserable group. Although she comes from a relatively

Spine-tingling and Mind-BlowingThis was one of those books, that for whatever reason, kept getting pushed to the bottom of Mount TBR. Finally, when choosing those precious few that I would take with me on vacation, this one made the cut. Let me tell you.. I am SO glad that I did. By now, I am sure all of you here on GR know what the plot of this book is.. so I am going to skip that.Emma Cline focuses on character development, character development, and guess what? Yes, you guessed it! Character

Seductive from the start...mesmerizing writing and storytelling!!!!At 14, Evie's parents have recently divorced. Her father has a new girlfriend, and her mother is dating a variety of men. Early into the story, she remembers a cocktail party her parents had thrown, ( the year before they split). The guests were her father's friends mostly. Her mother wasn't very social and hovered around the buffet table trying desperately to seek approval for the food she had preparedEvie felt embarrassed that

The Girls by Emma Cline is a 2016 Random House publication. Disturbingly realistic, weird, thought provoking and engrossing-Loosely based on the Manson cult in the late sixties, this novel explores the allure of the hippie commune atmosphere for fourteen- year old Evie, who is adrift and marginalized by her divorced parents, and suffering from loneliness and boredom. Evie meets Suzanne while out roaming around and continues to run into her until she is finally invited to visit The Ranch and meet

As Im sure everyone knows The Girls is about (despite disclaimers) the Manson murders. Personally I think this would have been a better novel (though probably a less commercially successful one) had she invented her own cult because Cline always seemed to me, understandably, out of her depth when dealing with the inner springs of the Manson cult. It was an odd choice to base this novel so closely on the Manson cult and yet at the same time coyly change names and a few insignificant details. Much

Damn, this is a great book. (I'm using several quotes from the book just because this Emma Cline can write her ass off.)Evie Boyd, is fourteen years old in the sixties. Her parents recently divorced and her dad is living in a small apartment with a much younger woman and her mom is trying out finding herself and trying out for a new husband. So Evie disagrees with her best friend and is just lost. Until she meets Suzanne. Suzanne is cool and otherworldly, she talks about the farm that she and

"Connie studied me with cold wonder, like I'd betrayed her, and maybe I had. I'd done what we were not supposed to do. Illuminated a slice of private weakness, exposed the twitchy rabbit heart."When I first saw a review for this book I thought it was about The Charles Manson Family. It is not, but in essence, it is almost exactly the same story. Only names have been altered and events slightly altered as well. Still, it piqued my interest enough that I wanted to read it because of a story my mom