Brutes By Dizz Tate Book

Brutes A Novel By Dizz Tate Hardback Cover Book ***Book Has Lots of Wear and Tear! See Photos! The Virgin Suicides meets The Florida Project in this wildly original debut—a coming-of-age story about the crucible of girlhood, from a writer of rare and startling talent We would not be born out of sweetness, we were born out of rage, we felt it in our bones. In Falls Landing, Florida—a place built of theme parks, swampy lakes, and scorched bougainvillea flowers— something sinister lurks in the deep. A gang of thirteen-year-old girls obsessively orbits around the local TV preacher's daughter, Sammy. She is mesmerizing, older, and in love. But suddenly, Sammy goes missing. Where is she? Watching from a distance, they edge ever closer to discovering a dark secret about their fame-hungry town and the cruel cost of a ticket out. What they see will continue to haunt them for the rest of their lives. With a voice that is darkly beautiful and brutally compelling, Dizz Tate captures the violence, horrors, and manic joys of girlhood. Brutes is a novel about the seemingly unbreakable bonds in the we of young friendship, and the moment they are broken forever.