TY - BOOK AU - Cline,Emma TI - The girls: a novel SN - 9780812998603 AV - PS3603.L547 G58 2015 U1 - 813/.6 23 PY - 2016/// CY - New York PB - Random House KW - Teenage girls KW - Fiction KW - Communal living KW - California KW - Nineteen sixties KW - Counterculture KW - Psychological fiction N2 - 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. -- ER -