{"product_id":"9780062417145","title":"Girls on Fire : A Novel","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eGirls on Fire\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Robin Wasserman\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn Halloween, 1991, a popular high school basketball star ventures into the woods near Battle Creek, Pennsylvania, and disappears. Three days later, he’s found with a bullet in his head and a gun in his hand—a discovery that sends tremors through this conservative community, already unnerved by growing rumors of Satanic worship in the region.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the wake of this incident, bright but lonely Hannah Dexter is befriended by Lacey Champlain, a dark-eyed, Cobain-worshiping bad influence in lip gloss and Doc Martens. The charismatic, seductive Lacey forges a fast, intimate bond with the impressionable Dex, making her over in her own image and unleashing a fierce defiance that neither girl expected. But as Lacey gradually lures Dex away from her safe life into a feverish spiral of obsession, rebellion, and ever greater risk, an unwelcome figure appears on the horizon—and Lacey’s secret history collides with Dex’s worst nightmare.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy turns a shocking story of love and violence and an addictive portrait of the intoxication of female friendship, set against the unsettled backdrop of a town gripped by moral panic, \u003cem\u003eGirls on Fire\u003c\/em\u003e is an unflinching and unforgettable snapshot of girlhood: girls lost and found, girls strong and weak, girls who burn bright and brighter—and some who flicker away.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e“An enveloping page-turner.”\u003cbr\u003e“Explores the line where close female friendships can blur into obsession and self-obliteration….At the heart of the dark story is an intoxicating and all-consuming friendship between two teenage girls.”\u003cbr\u003e“An enthralling, gritty, and altogether unpredictable read that holds nothing back.... You will be utterly riveted.”\u003cbr\u003e“Like lightning in a bottle, Robin Wasserman’s GIRLS ON FIRE captures girlhood friendship in all its shattering intensity. A captivating, terrifying novel, and one you won’t forget.”\u003cbr\u003e“A perfectly constructed literary novel… nearly impossible to put down…Wasserman does so many things right... it’s hard to count them all…. \u003ci\u003eGirls on Fire\u003c\/i\u003e is an inferno - it’s brutally gorgeous, and you know it could explode anytime, but you can’t turn away, even for a second.”\u003cbr\u003e“’She was making fun of me, or she wasn’t. She was like me, or she wasn’t,’ says Hannah, spidey senses already tingling, after her first extended hang-out with Lacey. It’s one of several sharp, spot-on lines about the frailty of teen friendships that Wasserman employs throughout the book.... [Wasserman proves her] own black-magic mettle by conjuring up an era where ill-informed paranoia (and just plain ding-dongness) turned some of the quietest corners of America into fear factories, full of deep-rooted distrust and misspent rage.”\u003cbr\u003e“A dark, propulsive fever-dream of youth and friendship. I wanted to grab these girls and shake them, sing them lullabies, stop them—but all I could do was keep reading them, relentlessly enthralled by the heat-seeking missile of Robin Wasserman’s fearless imagination.”\u003cbr\u003e“As intense as adolescence and as dark as a dream.... \u003ci\u003eGirls on Fire\u003c\/i\u003e is a mystery and a tangled love triangle and a sharp, ruthless thriller, and it’s satisfying and troubling on all these levels.”\u003cbr\u003e“Deliciously digestible.... [\u003ci\u003eGirls on Fire\u003c\/i\u003e has] an undeniably dark, voyeuristic appeal: we get to watch universal emotions manifest with extreme outward ferocity.”\u003cbr\u003e“Part murder mystery, part love story, this page-turner explores the dark side of the all-consuming friendship between a wide-eyed good girl and a grunge-worshipping rebel.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780062417145\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":41086960435406,"sku":"9780062417145","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/9780062417145_6565e12f-d334-45dc-86f6-e600fb847b38.jpg?v=1652120532","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780062417145","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}