5/8/2023 0 Comments The Girls by Emma Cline![]() "These long-haired girls seemed to glide above all that was happening around them, tragic and separate. "I studied the girls with a shameless, blatant gape," adult Evie narrates, looking back at this turning point moment in her young life. They have a voyeur spying on them, 14-year-old Evie Boyd, yearning, during that long hot summer of 1969, to bust loose from her boring suburban life in Petaluma. Three young women gather like a coven of witches on the beautiful green lawn of a park in Northern California. Names and circumstances are changed, events are relocated from Los Angeles to the Bay area, but the reality bleeds through the fiction. The concept of the male gaze is well established, but Cline employs what can only be termed the female gaze as an entry into the helter-skelter life of her protagonist. How?Įmma Cline's thoroughly seductive debut novel, The Girls, re-imagines the world of Charles Manson's female followers, and does so with a particularly effective literary device. ![]() Your purchase helps support NPR programming. ![]() Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Girls Author Emma Cline ![]()
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