num_pages: 280
description: Jessie Vale dances in an elite ballet program that requires perfection to land a spot with the professional company. When she is cast in an animalistic avant garde production her careful composure cracks wide open. Nothing has felt more dangerous.Meanwhile her friend Dawn McCormick's world is full of holes. She wakes in strange places bruised battered and unable to speak. The doctors are out of ideas.These childhood friends are both running out of time. Jessie has one shot at her ballet dream. Dawn's blackouts are getting worse. At every turn they crash into the many ways girls are watched judged used and discarded. Should they play it safe or go feral?
language: English
title: Pointe, Claw
publisher: Carolrhoda Lab ®