Girls on Fire, Robin Wasserman
Girls on Fire, Robin Wasserman
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Girls on Fire
A Novel

Author: Robin Wasserman

Narrator: Cassandra Campbell, Simone Lewis, Allyson Ryan

Unabridged: 11 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 05/17/2016


Synopsis

On Halloween, 1991, a popular high school basketball star ventures into the woods near Battle Creek, Pennsylvania, and disappears. Three days later, he’s found with a bullet in his head and a gun in his hand—a discovery that sends tremors through this conservative community, already unnerved by growing rumors of Satanic worship in the region.In the wake of this incident, bright but lonely Hannah Dexter is befriended by Lacey Champlain, a dark-eyed, Cobain-worshiping bad influence in lip gloss and Doc Martens. The charismatic, seductive Lacey forges a fast, intimate bond with the impressionable Dex, making her over in her own image and unleashing a fierce defiance that neither girl expected. But as Lacey gradually lures Dex away from her safe life into a feverish spiral of obsession, rebellion, and ever greater risk, an unwelcome figure appears on the horizon—and Lacey’s secret history collides with Dex’s worst nightmare.By turns a shocking story of love and violence and an addictive portrait of the intoxication of female friendship, set against the unsettled backdrop of a town gripped by moral panic, Girls on Fire is an unflinching and unforgettable snapshot of girlhood: girls lost and found, girls strong and weak, girls who burn bright and brighter—and some who flicker away.

About Robin Wasserman

Robin Wasserman is a graduate of Harvard University and the author of several successful novels for young adults. A recent recipient of a MacDowell fellowship, she lives in Brooklyn, New York. Girls on Fire is her first novel for adults.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Laura

It’s hard to think of what to say to even do this book justice. Girls on Fire is the story of a destructive female friendship in all it’s glory. There is something so intense, obsessive, and even terrifying about teenage girls and their friendships. Robin Wasserman does an incredible job at captur......more

DNF - 50% I could keep going, but I'm just really not enjoying this. I can't shake the feeling that we’ve kind of already been here and done this thing. Girls on Fire is yet another book with flowery prose, about a good girl who becomes involved with a bad girl. Their friendship spirals into a consumi......more

Goodreads review by Andrew

This book slaps you in the face on the first page and keeps on slapping you until it eventually gives you a good mugging and sends you off to recover, wondering at the sheer brute power of it all. Set in a town in rural Pennsylvania, we learn of the suicide of a young basketball star at Halloween, 1......more