Girls--their vulnerability, strength, and passion to belong--are at the heart of this stunning first novel for readers of Jeffrey Eugenides's The Virgin Suicides and Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad. Northern California, during the violent end of the 1960s. At the start of summer, a lonely and thoughtful teenager, Evie Boyd, sees a group of girls in the park, and is immediately caught by their freedom, their careless dress, their dangerous aura of abandon. Soon, Evie is enthralled by Suzanne, a mesmerizing older girl, and is drawn into the circle of a soon-to-be infamous cult and the man who is its charismatic leader. Hidden in the hills, their sprawling ranch is eerie and run down, but to Evie, it is exotic, thrilling, charged--a place where she feels desperate to be accepted. As she spends more time away from her mother and the rhythms of her daily life, and as her obsession with Suzanne intensifies, Evie does not realize she is coming closer and closer to unthinkable viol

Northern California, during the violent end of the 1960s. At the start of summer, a lonely and thoughtful teenager, Evie Boyd, sees a group of girls in the park, and is immediately caught by their freedom, their careless dress, their dangerous aura of abandon. Soon, Evie is in thrall to Suzanne, a mesmerizing older girl, and is drawn into the circle of a soon-to-be infamous cult and the man who is its charismatic leader. Hidden in the hills, their sprawling ranch is eerie and run down, but to Evie, it is exotic, thrilling, charged -- a place where she feels desperate to be accepted. As she spends more time away from her mother and the rhythms of her daily life, and as her obsession with Suzanne intensifies, Evie does not realize she is coming closer and closer to unthinkable violence.

Girls--their vulnerability, strength, and passion to belong--are at the heart of this stunning first novel for readers of Jeffrey Eugenides's The Virgin Suicides and Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad. Northern California, during the violent end of the 1960s. At the start of summer, a lonely and thoughtful teenager, Evie Boyd, sees a group of girls in the park, and is immediately caught by their freedom, their careless dress, their dangerous aura of abandon. Soon, Evie is enthralled by Suzanne, a mesmerizing older girl, and is drawn into the circle of a soon-to-be infamous cult and the man who is its charismatic leader. Hidden in the hills, their sprawling ranch is eerie and run down, but to Evie, it is exotic, thrilling, charged--a place where she feels desperate to be accepted. As she spends more time away from her mother and the rhythms of her daily life, and as her obsession with Suzanne intensifies, Evie does not realize she is coming closer and closer to unthinkable viol

At the start of summer, a lonely and thoughtful teenager, Evie Boyd, sees a group of girls in the park, and is immediately caught by their freedom, their careless dress, their dangerous aura of abandon. Soon, Evie is in thrall to Suzanne, a mesmerizing older girl, and is drawn into the circle of a soon-to-be infamous cult and the man who is its charismatic leader. Hidden in the hills, their sprawling ranch is eerie and run down, but to Evie, it is exotic, thrilling, charged--a place where she feels desperate to be accepted. As she spends more time away from her mother and the rhythms of her daily life, and as her obsession with Suzanne intensifies, Evie does not realize she is coming closer and closer to unthinkable violence.

Severnaya Kaliforniya, burnyye 1960-ye podkhodyat k zaversheniyu. V nachale leta odinokaya, pogruzhennaya v sebya 14-letnyaya Evi Boyd vidit v parke kompaniyu devochek. Oni razitel'no otlichayutsya ot vsekh, kogo Evi znayet. Raskovannyye manery, nebrezhnaya odezhda, svoboda v kazhdom dvizhenii, v kazhdom vzglyade i aura otdel'nosti ot vsego ostal'nogo mira. Evi zacharovana imi. A vskore ona sama stanet odnoy iz etikh devochek, vol'yetsya v kommunu, gde net mesta pravilam, gde zhizn' sovershenno ne pokhozha na privychnuyu obydennost', gde mir vrashchayetsya vokrug kharizmatichnogo lidera. Uvlechennaya novoy zhizn'yu, oderzhimaya tyagoy k novoy podruge, Evi vse blizhe i blizhe podkhodit k bezdne, k toy tochke, chto pomenyayet zhizn' i smert' mestami. 'Devochki' - debyutnyy roman Emmy Klayn, stavshiy bol'shim literaturnym sobytiyem. Za syuzhetom ugadyvayetsya kanva istorii Charlza Mensona i yego kommuny-sekty, sostoyavshey po bol'shey chasti iz yunykh devushek. Pronizannyy atmosferoy shes