num_pages: 304
description: The Virgin Suicides meets The Florida Project in this wildly original debuta coming-of-age story about the crucible of girlhood from a writer of rare and startling talentWe would not be born out of sweetness we were born out of rage we felt it in our bones.In Falls Landing Floridaa place built of theme parks swampy lakes and scorched bougainvillea flowerssomething sinister lurks in the deep. A gang of thirteen-year-old girls obsessively orbit around the local preacher's daughter Sammy. She is mesmerizing older and in love with Eddie. But suddenly Sammy goes missing. Where is she? Watching from a distance they edge ever closer to discovering a dark secret about their fame-hungry town and the cruel cost of a ticket out. What they see will continue to haunt them for the rest of their lives.Through a darkly beautiful and brutally compelling lens Dizz Tate captures the violence horrors and manic joys of girlhood. Brutes is a novel about the seemingly unbreakable bonds in the we of young friendship and the moment it is broken forever.
language: English
title: Brutes
publisher: Catapult