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The Girls
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Cady McClain
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
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Publisher's Summary
The instant best seller
An indelible portrait of girls, the women they become, and that moment in life when everything can go horribly wrong
Named one of the best books of the year by The Washington Post • NPR • The Guardian • Entertainment Weekly • San Francisco Chronicle • Financial Times • Esquire • Newsweek • Vogue • Glamour • People • The Huffington Post • Elle • Harper’s Bazaar • Time Out • BookPage • Publishers Weekly • Slate
Northern California, during the violent end of the 1960s. At 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. Hidden 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. As 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.
Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Award
Shortlisted for The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize
The New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
Emma Cline - One of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists
Praise for The Girls
“Spellbinding...a seductive and arresting coming-of-age story.” (The New York Times Book Review)
“Extraordinary... Debut novels like this are rare, indeed.” (The Washington Post)
“Hypnotic.” (The Wall Street Journal)
“Gorgeous.” (Los Angeles Times)
“Savage.” (The Guardian)
“Astonishing.” (The Boston Globe)
“Superbly written.” (James Wood, The New Yorker)
“Intensely consuming.” (Richard Ford)
“A spectacular achievement.” (Lucy Atkins, The Times)
“Thrilling.” (Jennifer Egan)
“Compelling and startling.” (The Economist)
Critic Reviews
“[The Girls reimagines] the American novel... Like Mary Gaitskill’s Veronica or Lorrie Moore’s Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?, The Girls captures a defining friendship in its full humanity with a touch of rock-memoir, tell-it-like-it-really-was attitude.” (Vogue)
“Debut novels like this are rare, indeed.... The most remarkable quality of this novel is Cline’s ability to articulate the anxieties of adolescence in language that’s gorgeously poetic without mangling the authenticity of a teenager’s consciousness. The adult’s melancholy reflection and the girl’s swelling impetuousness are flawlessly braided together.... For a story that traffics in the lurid notoriety of the Manson murders, The Girls is an extraordinary act of restraint. With the maturity of a writer twice her age, Cline has written a wise novel that’s never showy: a quiet, seething confession of yearning and terror.” (The Washington Post)
“Outstanding... Cline’s novel is an astonishing work of imagination - remarkably atmospheric, preternaturally intelligent, and brutally feminist.... Cline painstakingly destroys the separation between art and faithful representation to create something new, wonderful, and disorienting.” (The Boston Globe)
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- B-Bopp
- 12-01-17
Being a girl (reviewers seem to miss point)
What made the experience of listening to The Girls the most enjoyable?
I'm a little surprised the extent to which so many reviewers miss the point of this poignant book. While the story captures the cultural context and events of the Manson family, this primary focus really on the girls (the title is apt). Cline captures the vulnerability, uncertainty, longing, and frustrations of being a girl, in the liminal space between child and adult, and the discomfort of defining a “self” against the “self” impose by others. The tumultuous, ecstatic backdrop of the late sixties may enable the situation that the narrator gravitates toward. But the sensibility of gender and age, and the complicated relationships between girls, and between generations, transcends that cultural context.
What did you like best about this story?
Most of the action of the story takes place during the summer of 1969 (the same year in which the Manson family came to its tragic climax) but the narrator tells the story from the perspective of a woman in middle age. Her narration alternates between the remembered events, and a present-day moment. This shift in context— evoking what changes and what doesn’t as we get older, what leaves us and what haunts us — is a significant aspect of the book. (One reviewer was confused that characters were using cell phones. Those passages in the book take place in present day, when the narrator is in her 50’s. Those are fairly lengthy sections, so I’m not sure how that reader overlooked the context)
What does Cady McClain bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
Cady McClain did a lovely job capturing the girls’ voices, heady with pot or hallucingens and performative nonchalance, often straddling the simultaneous currents of longing, self-protection, affection, and hostility.
Any additional comments?
Cline tells a story based on one that is familiar to many of us, but from a more subtle and under-appreciated perspective. She does this with sensitivity and poignancy, as well as evocative prose.
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- Addi Louis
- 07-07-17
Absolutely Recommend
Some of the voices were a little silly, but wow did I love this story. I'll have to buy the book too, just to have it.
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- Ethan
- 10-25-16
Loved it
Couldn't stop listening. She really transported me into her world. I want more books from Emma Cline immediately.
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- AnahitaAnahita
- 10-11-16
incredible and shocking story!
This book will grab you from the first 5 minutes. A shocking story beautifully written.
"These long-haired girls seemed to glide above all that was happening around them, tragic and separate. Like royalty in exile."
"I could drink until my problem seemed compact and pretty. Something I could admire."
"It surprised me that someone could just touch me at any moment, the gift of their hand given as thoughtlessly as a piece of gum."
".. money kept everyone slaves, where they buttoned their shirts up to the neck, strangling any love they had inside themselves."
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- Amelia C.
- 08-25-17
Dark..realistic
I studied the psychology of cult behavior at Michigan State University in the 80s. This book was spot on. It's intriguing. Our vulnerabilities are vulnerable. Our young people are so susceptible.
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- Wendy Van Dyk
- 03-09-18
Disturbing but great
This book is very disturbing and unbelievable that such horrific things took place. Very well written, great story. I just couldn’t put it down as I wanted to find out what happened next.
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- Amazon Customer
- 04-24-17
Fascinating story providing insights into Manson
Very intriguing story. I enjoyed the parallels between Manson Cult and this fictional story. Yes, the book is coming age and reveals girls' desire to 'fit in' and 'belong'. Cline does a great job of painting the picture and showing the reader and not simply just telling the reader.
Girls, provides thought-provoking insights how people can me pulled into a cult and do things they don't want to do, know that its morally wrong, and stay even though a lot of times it feels if they want to 'escape.'
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- Bridgeyybearr
- 01-16-17
5 Stars!
Highly recommending this book!
Emma Cline's short and clipped way of writing draws you in and places you in the world she's created. I couldn't stop once I started.
This book is brutal and honest- nothing is sugar coated and can be shocking at times but that's what made the story hard to put down. A really raw point of view on a young girls need to fit in and the feelings and experiences that come with growing up and finding your place.
I listened to the audible version and it added so much to the story- great performance by the narrator!
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- Wendi
- 09-11-16
One of the Most Boring Listens..Ever
I was very excited about the hype with 'The Girls' by Emma Cline. After all, the book was plastered all over the internet and was advertised in my Facebook feed every fourth post. I find stories about people who join cults absolutely fascinating. The 'why' they do it and the psychology behind the leadership of the cult have always been interesting in my opinion. When I found out the Cline's book was about a woman who lived with a cult leader in the seventies, my curiousity was piqued.
Evie is a young impressionable girl who's mother chooses men over her teenage daughter. She is a the prime candidate to get involved with a group of people who pretend to accept her, care for her, and love her- all with ulterior motives. The book starts out fairly well- and I was hooked on Evie's teenage character because I wanted to see what would happen to her once she joined the cult and became lost in the craziness (for lack of a better word).
The problem is two fold. The book tells the story of Evie two ways- before the induction into the cult and far after- so a childhood perspective and then an adult perspective. This in itself is not a problem but it does lead up to something that is very wrong with this novel- which is that while Evie's teenage perspective is somewhat interesting, the adult perspective is not. To be blunt- it's probably one of the most boring stories I've ever heard. I couldn't have cared less about any of the characters, what they did, or what happened to them.
This book is a perfect example of when critics go crazy for verbose writing and hype up a book that is so boring it's almost unreadable. Spare yourself some time and dig into the thousands of pages of 'War and Peace' instead- you might find it a little more interesting. Better yet- skip the book altogether and watch some paint dry...
2 stars
Wendi
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- leelee8888
- 06-14-16
I'm not even through the first chapter
But I have to point out that this is suppose to take place during the 1960's , yet some how the have somehow exchanged numbers on their CELLPHONES. Since I have only heard the first chapter I'm in no way attempting to review this book yet, I will say though , the authors writing style is a bit odd. For example " sweet drone of honey suckle, the glass of water quivering, the swallow of morning orange juice, the unlocking behind the eyes, the stranger at the door, a deer thrashing in the brush, I hear voices , a middle aged woman, " that's how she describes everything. "The green on the lawn, the dead bird in the lawn, the whisper in the breeze". Not going to make it through this I'll be honest.
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