The Nowhere Girls
Author: Amy Reed
Genre: YA Contemporary
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Synopsis:
Three misfits come together to avenge the rape of a fellow classmate and in the process trigger a change in the misogynist culture at their high school transforming the lives of everyone around them in this searing and timely story.
Who are the Nowhere Girls?
They’re everygirl. But they start with just three:
Grace Salter is the new girl in town, whose family was run out of their
former community after her southern Baptist preacher mom turned into a
radical liberal after falling off a horse and bumping her head.
Rosina Suarez is the queer punk girl in a conservative Mexican immigrant
family, who dreams of a life playing music instead of babysitting her
gaggle of cousins and waitressing at her uncle’s restaurant.
Erin Delillo is obsessed with two things: marine biology and Star Trek:
The Next Generation, but they aren’t enough to distract her from her
suspicion that she may in fact be an android.
When Grace learns that Lucy Moynihan, the former occupant of her new
home, was run out of town for having accused the popular guys
at school of gang rape, she’s incensed that Lucy never had justice. For
their own personal reasons, Rosina and Erin feel equally deeply about
Lucy’s tragedy, so they form an anonymous group of girls at Prescott
High to resist the sexist culture at their school, which includes
boycotting sex of any kind with the male students.
Told in alternating perspectives, this groundbreaking novel is an
indictment of rape culture and explores with bold honesty the deepest
questions about teen girls and sexuality.
Amy Reed was born and raised in and
around Seattle, where she attended a total of eight schools by the time
she was eighteen. Constant moving taught her to be restless and being an
only child made her imagination do funny things. After a brief stint at
Reed College (no relation), she moved to San Francisco and spent the
next several years serving coffee and getting into trouble. She
eventually graduated from film school, promptly decided she wanted
nothing to do with filmmaking, returned to her original and impractical
love of writing, and earned her MFA from New College of California. Her
short work has been published in journals such as Kitchen Sink,
Contrary, and Fiction. Amy currently lives in Oakland with her husband
and two cats, and has accepted that Northern California has replaced the
Pacific Northwest as her home. She is no longer restless. Find out more
at amyreedfiction.com.
BEAUTIFUL is her first novel.
Links:
Website: http://www.amyreedfiction.com
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2871046.Amy_Reed
Twitter: https://twitter.com/amyreedfiction
BEAUTIFUL is her first novel.
Links:
Website: http://www.amyreedfiction.com
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2871046.Amy_Reed
Twitter: https://twitter.com/amyreedfiction
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/amy.reed.14
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Good to see a book that tackles these issues in our culture head-on.
ReplyDeleteThis looks awesome! Yes I have added to my to read list for this year!
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