Title: Break the skin
Description: Disaffected teenager Laney has no one in the world but the older Delilah. When the police start asking Laney questions, she finds herself reconstructing a story of suspense, deceit, and revenge... a story that links her to the sadder-but-wiser Miss Baby, seven hundred miles away in Texas.
Subjects: Man-woman relationships, Police, Teenage girls, Fiction, Interpersonal relations, Secrecy, Family relationships, City and town life, Female friendship, New York Times reviewed
Places: Texas, Illinois