![]() ![]() ![]() Technically, Evie Boyd is telling us her story from the vantage point of adulthood, which she has reached nearly unscathed despite missing the famous murders only by inches, but the reader spends most of the novel submerged in her experience of the summer of 1969.Īlmost entirely lacking in stale period detail, the book is a trancelike accumulation of intense adolescent feelings and myopic impressions: “slurry days,” blushes “clotting” cheeks, dresses “stuttering with loose stitching”, the “brackish sea” of an older girl’s cocaine-coated mouth when she kisses Evie. One of the pleasures of Emma Cline’s first novel, The Girls – in which an unhappy 14-year-old in California takes refuge with a raggedy group not unlike the cult that surrounded Charles Manson – is its immediacy. ![]()
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