A cult coming-of-age debut
by Eliana Dockterman
Jun 04, 2016
2 minutes
EMMA CLINE’S DEBUT novel, The Girls, depicts the adolescent longings and frustrations of Evie Boyd, a 14-year-old who gets sucked into a Manson-family-like cult in 1969 California. Led by a charming but talentless middle-aged hippie named Russell, the cult consists largely of women desperate for love who find comfort not only in Russell’s arms but also in those of their sisters. “To
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