The Girls -

Emma Cline

Vintage

2016

368 páginas

12h 16m

ISBN-13: 9781784740450

The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller. The New York Times Top Ten Bestseller. California. The summer of 1969. In the dying days of a floundering counter-culture a young girl is unwittingly caught up in unthinkable violence, and a decision made at this moment, on the cusp of adulthood, will shape her life..."This book will break your heart and blow your mind." (Lena Dunham). Evie Boyd is desperate to be noticed. In the summer of 1969, empty days stretch out under the California sun. The smell of honeysuckle thickens the air and the sidewalks radiate heat. Until she sees them. The snatch of cold laughter. Hair, long and uncombed. Dirty dresses skimming the tops of thighs. Cheap rings like a second set of knuckles. The girls. And at the centre, Russell. Russell and the ranch, down a long dirt track and deep in the hills. Incense and clumsily strummed chords. Rumours of sex, frenzied gatherings, teen runaways. Was there a warning, a sign of things to come? Or is Evie already too enthralled by the girls to see that her life is about to be changed forever?

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“these long-haired girls seemed to glide above all that was happening around them, tragic and separate. Like royalty in exile.”

o livro se trata de uma obra de ficção baseada na seita do charles manson e nos crimes cometidos por eles. enquanto true crime lover, achei muito interessante o ponto de vista da evie, uma menina que se envolve com esse grupo quase que por acaso. a fascinação juvenil por uma garota “cool”, o desamparo delirante ao perceber que faria qualquer coisa pra ser vista, percebida por ela. a autora consegue construir muito bem os personagens, o cenário, tudo tem vida. apesar de algumas pessoas acharem a escrita meio prepotente, eu gostei bastante. achei linda, poética e não me incomodei com as metáforas.

*lembrando que não é um livro levinho e tem relatos gráficos de abuso sexual.