{"product_id":"plain-bad-heroines-a-novel-9780062942852","title":"Plain Bad Heroines: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER A delectable brew of gothic horror and Hollywood satire . . . and what makes all this so much fun is Danforths deliciously ghoulish voice . . . exquisite.\" Ron Charles  THE WASHINGTON POST \"A multi-faceted novel  equal parts gothic  sharply funny  sapphic romance  historical  and  of course  spooky. ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY Named a Most Anticipated Book by Entertainment Weekly  Washington Post  USA Today  Time  O  The Oprah Magazine  Buzzfeed  Harpers Bazaar  Vulture  Parade  HuffPost  Refinery29  Popsugar  E! News  Bustle  The Millions  GoodReads  Autostraddle  Lambda Literary  Literary Hub  and more! The award-winning author of The Miseducation of Cameron Post makes her adult debut with this highly imaginative and original horror-comedy centered around a cursed New England boarding school for girlsa wickedly whimsical celebration of the art of storytelling  sapphic love  and the rebellious female spirit Our story begins in 1902  at the Brookhants School for Girls. Flo and Clara  two impressionable students  are obsessed with each other and with a daring young writer named Mary MacLane  the author of a scandalous bestselling memoir. To show their devotion to Mary  the girls establish their own private club and call it the Plain Bad Heroine Society. They meet in secret in a nearby apple orchard  the setting of their wildest happiness and  ultimately  of their macabre deaths. This is where their bodies are later discovered with a copy of Marys book splayed beside them  the victims of a swarm of stinging  angry yellow jackets. Less than five years later  the Brookhants School for Girls closes its doors foreverbut not before three more people mysteriously die on the property  each in a most troubling way. Over a century later  the now abandoned and crumbling Brookhants is back in the news when wunderkind writer Merritt Emmons publishes a breakout book celebrating the queer  feminist history surrounding the haunted and cursed Gilded Age institution. Her bestselling book inspires a controversial horror film adaptation starring celebrity actor and lesbian it girl Harper Harper playing the ill-fated heroine Flo  opposite B-list actress and former child star Audrey Wells as Clara. But as Brookhants opens its gates once again  and our three modern heroines arrive on set to begin filming  past and present become grimly entangledor perhaps just grimly exploitedand soon its impossible to tell where the curse leaves off and Hollywood begins. A story within a story within a story and featuring black-and-white period-inspired illustrations  Plain Bad Heroines is a devilishly haunting  modern masterwork of metafiction that manages to combine the ghostly sensibility of Sarah Waters with the dark imagination of Marisha Pessl and the sharp humor and incisive social commentary of Curtis Sittenfeld into one laugh-out-loud funny  spellbinding  and wonderfully luxuriant read. Full of Victorian sapphic romance  metafictional horror  biting misandrist humor  Hollywood intrigue  and multiple timelinessall replete with evocative illustrations that are icing on a deviously delicious cake. O  THE OPRAH MAGAZINE ?A great read for spooky-season nights A perfect addition to any Halloween reading list\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67615886999605,"sku":"ByrdShop_0062942859","price":27.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780062942852.jpg?v=1791193489","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/plain-bad-heroines-a-novel-9780062942852","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}