From Rebecca Godfrey, author of UNDER THE BRIDGE - now streaming on Hulu, starring Lily Gladstone and Riley Keough - a fierce and tender portrait of two weeks in the life of a troubled teenager.
"The Torn Skirt is a hot book, a thrilling romance of teen rage and longing - like S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders, except about girls." -- Mary Gaitskill, author of This is Pleasure and Bad Behavior
At Mt. Douglas (a.k.a. Mt. Drug) High, all the girls have feathered hair, and the sweet scent of Love's Baby Soft can't hide the musk of raw teenage anger, apathy, and desire. Sara Shaw is a girl full of fever and longing, a girl looking for something risky, something real. Her only possible salvation comes in the willowy form of the mysterious Justine, the outlaw girl in the torn skirt. The search for Justine will lead Sara on a daring odyssey into an underworld of hookers and johns, junkies and thieves, runaway girls and skater boys, and, ultimately, into a violent tragedy.
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if you're looking for something wonderfully deep and significant, this book is not for you. in fact, if you are expecting some blindingly mundane example of a teenagers descent into corruption and ascent from said corruption, don't bother. this book is important to me only because it is the most accurate description of what horrors can lie in the underbelly of teenage rebellion. And as a formerly rebellious teen, the descriptions...
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The reviews I've seen of this book talk about drugs and wild nights--but believe me, folks, this ain't no ANIMAL HOUSE, nor Bret Easton Ellis neither. Sara Shaw is amazing, completely un-self-aware; you want to wrap her up tight till the storm passes, or shake her (a little) in hopes that maybe, just maybe, she could see about herself what YOU see in her; but you also know she wouldn't allow it.....This here's a literary...
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I have read various book of this sort -- a coming-of-age story of a teenager who learns the facts of life the hard way. However, Rebecca Godfrey's The Torn Skirt is written with a fresh approach to brutal honesty. The novel's language is beautiful and sinister at the same time.After her father abandons her, Sara's journey is one of struggle and heartbreak. Her loss of innocence is gruesome and disturbing -- especially when...
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The book takes place in Victoria. The capitol of BC, Canada. It follows a young girl and her trouble with her parents. She ultimately turns to the street and finds comfort in many runaways who she meets along the way. It is an eye opener to the life that many of us don't see. The style of writing accents it highly creating a book that you can't put down. I finished it in less than two days because i was so intrigued by what...
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