The Torn Skirt
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From Rebecca Godfrey author of UNDER THE BRIDGE now streaming on Hulu starring Lily Gladstone and Riley Keough a fierce and tender portrait of two weeks in the life of a troubled teenager. The Torn Skirt is a hot book a thrilling romance of teen rage and longing like S.E. Hintons The Outsiders except about girls. Mary Gaitskill author of This is Pleasure and Bad Behavior At Mt. Douglas (a.k.a. Mt. Drug) High all the girls have feathered hair and the sweet scent of Loves Baby Soft cant hide the musk of raw teenage anger apathy and desire. Sara Shaw is a girl full of fever and longing a girl looking for something risky something real. Her only possible salvation comes in the willowy form of the mysterious Justine the outlaw girl in the torn skirt. The search for Justine will lead Sara on a daring odyssey into an underworld of hookers and johns junkies and thieves runaway girls and skater boys and ultimately into a violent tragedy.
