The Girls: A Novel
THE INSTANT BESTSELLER - An indelible portrait of girls, the women they become, and that moment in life when everything can go horribly wrong ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, NPR, The Guardian, Entertainment Weekly, San Francisco Chronicle, Financial Times, Esquire, Newsweek, Vogue, Glamour, People, The Huffington Post, Elle,...show more
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3.5 stars!
I loved the characterization and relationships between the main characters. That was really the highlight of the book for me. I enjoyed that Evie was part of the group but always a little removed from it all. The dreamy quality of the writing really captured the haze of that time period and really of Evie's experience as an adolescent set adrift from the people around her. In a way, it reminded me of Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar.
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I loved the characterization and relationships between the main characters. That was really the highlight of the book for me. I enjoyed that Evie was part of the group but always a little removed from it all. The dreamy quality of the writing really captured the haze of that time period and really of Evie's experience as an adolescent set adrift from the people around her. In a way, it reminded me of Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar.
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I loved the narrative, but the ending was horrible. for such a dense book, i would think the ending would have been just as good as the middle.
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