Co-presented by Litquake and JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO
Part of the 2016 Litquake festival: https://litquake2016.sched.org/
[https://litquake2016.sched.org/] This stunning first novel by Emma
Cline, based in part on the Charles Manson history, paints an
indelible portrait of girls, the women they become, and that moment in
life when everything can go horribly wrong. In conversation with
novelist Ellen Sussman. $28-48 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. FEATURING: Emma Cline Ellen Sussman
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