The Divines -

Ellie Eaton

William Morrow

2021

321 páginas

10h 42m

ISBN-10: 0063012197

Can we ever really escape our past?

The girls of St John the Divine, an elite English boarding school, were notorious for flipping their hair, harassing teachers, chasing boys, and chain-smoking cigarettes. They were fiercely loyal, sharp-tongued, and cuttingly humorous in the way that only teenage girls can be. For Josephine, now in her thirties, the years at St John were a lifetime ago. She hasn’t spoken to another Divine in fifteen years, not since the day the school shuttered its doors in disgrace.

Yet now Josephine inexplicably finds herself returning to her old stomping grounds. The visit provokes blurry recollections of those doomed final weeks that rocked the community. Ruminating on the past, Josephine becomes obsessed with her teenage identity and the forgotten girls of her one-time orbit. With each memory that resurfaces, she circles closer to the violent secret at the heart of the school’s scandal. But the more Josephine recalls, the further her life unravels, derailing not just her marriage and career, but her entire sense of self.

Suspenseful, provocative, and compulsively readable, The Divines is a scorching examination of the power of adolescent sexuality, female identity, and the destructive class divide. Exposing the tension between the lives we lead as adults and the experiences that form us, Eaton probes us to consider how our memories as adults compel us to reexamine our pasts.

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Difícil fazer uma resenha pra esse livro porque ao mesmo tempo que quero falar sobre a escrita, que prendeu minha atenção, ele é um livro com praticamente sem plot. A primeira cena é chocante e dá um ar de mistério ao que vem em seguida. Mas o resto do desenvolvimento é só contando o quanto meninas ricas são vadias. É literalmente isso. Um monte de meninas ricas sendo horríveis porque sai privilegiadas (o que bate com a realidade) e a protagonista cresce e você vê que ela não mudou nada. O livro é apenas isso.