01540cam a2200325 i 4500 263855668 TxAuBib 20160531120000.0 150416s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2015012714 9780812998603 081299860X TxAuBib rda Cline, Emma. The Girls : a novel / Emma Cline. First edition. New York : Random House, 2016. 355 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Mesmerized by a band of girls in the park whom she perceives as enjoying a life of free and careless abandon, 1960s teen Evie Boyd becomes obsessed with gaining acceptance into their circle. Evie, grateful for their charismatic leader's attention, the sense of family the group offers, and the assurance of the girls, is swept into their chaotic cult existence. As things turn darker, her choices become riskier. A wonderfully written debut novel about the harm we can do, to ourselves and others, in our hunger for belonging and acceptance. -- adapted from NoveList and Publishers Weekly. 20160531. MG. Teenage girls Fiction. Communal living California Fiction. Nineteen sixties Fiction. Counterculture Fiction. Psychological fiction.