Evie, a girl who is coming of age in a monotonous loop of summer in the Californian suburbs, is suddenly jolted out of the normalities of her own life when she latches onto a group of older girls she meets in the beginning of a summer that could’ve been identical to all summers before if she hadn’t met them. In her debut novel based on the Manson cult, The Girls, Emma Cline sets the story of fourteen-year-old Evie Boyd against a backdrop of evils simmering behind a seemingly peaceful mysticism. The flower crowns and hazy fragmented memories bleed into the later 60s, but along the way the “make love, not war” incentive and surreal psychedelic subculture speed into a ferocious end that begins in California and ripples outwards to the entire country. It’s 1969 and the social phenomenon that is the summer of love is two years long gone.
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