num_pages: 448
description: Emotionally engaging...[A] romantic page turner.Michiko Kakutani The New York Times A sexy suspenseful gorgeously written book. Curtis Sittenfeld author of Prep A propulsive novel about sex love family money class home and horses - all set against the ominous threat of the Depression The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls is part scandalous love story part heartbreaking family drama. It is 1930 the midst of the Great Depression. After her mysterious role in a family tragedy passionate strong-willed Thea Atwell age fifteen has been cast out of her Florida home exiled to an equestrienne boarding school for Southern debutantes. High in the Blue Ridge Mountains with its complex social strata ordered by money beauty and girls friendships the Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls is a far remove from the free-roaming dreamlike childhood Thea shared with her twin brother on their familys citrus farma world now partially shattered. As Thea grapples with her responsibility for the events of the past year that led her here she finds herself enmeshed in a new order one that will change her sense of what is possible for herself her family her country.Weaving provocatively between home and school the narrative powerfully unfurls the true story behind Theas expulsion from her family but it isnt long before the mystery of her past is rivaled by the question of how it will shape her future. Part scandalous love story part heartbreaking family drama The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls is an immersive transporting page-turnera vivid propulsive novel about sex love family money class home and horses all set against the ominous threat of the Depressionand the major debut of an important new writer.
language: English
title: The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls
publisher: Riverhead Books