num_pages: 208
description: Told from Gretel Samuelson's sly and knowing perspective, Local Girls charts her progress as she navigates from childhood to the brink of womanhood, picking her way though the tragedies and absurdities of everyday life in a family which is rocked by divorce and disaster, bad judgement and fierce attachments. Her father has left them, her chain-smoking mother, Franny, is falling apart and refuses to learn the simple lessons of life, her perfect brother has fatal flaws, and even her best friend Jill - blonde, enviable and beautiful - is moving too fast into the unfathomable world of women.
language: English
title: Local Girls
titlecomplete: Local Girls
genres: Magical Realism, Fantasy, Chick Lit, Adult Fiction, Short Stories, Contemporary, Young Adult, Novels, Coming Of Age, Fiction
ratings_count: 6287
places: Long Island, New York
publisher: Vintage