{"product_id":"the-girls-a-novel","title":"The Girls: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eSummary\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eGirls, their vulnerability, strength, and desire to belong, are at the heart of this un-put-downable first novel set during the violent end of the 1960s in Northern California\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the start of summer, a lonely and thoughtful teenager, Evie Boyd, sees a group of girls in the park, and is immediately caught by their freedom, their careless dress, their dangerous aura of abandon. Soon, Evie is in thrall to Suzanne, a mesmerizing older girl, and is drawn into the circle of a soon-to-be infamous cult and the man who is its charismatic leader.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHidden in the hills, their sprawling ranch is eerie and run down, but to Evie, it is exotic, thrilling, charged—a place where she feels desperate to be accepted.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs she spends more time away from her mother and the rhythms of her daily life, and as her obsession with Suzanne intensifies, Evie does not realize she is coming closer and closer to unthinkable violence, and to that moment in a girl’s life when everything can go horribly wrong.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eEMMA CLINE is from California. Her fiction has appeared in Tin House and the Paris Review, and she was the recipient of the 2014 Paris Review Plimpton Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHardcover: 368 pages\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublisher: Random House\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFiction \\ Coming Of Age\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Alliance Entertainment","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49411619160338,"sku":"9780812998603","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/3509920.jpg?v=1717475413","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-girls-a-novel","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}