Tag: Novel review

  • Debut novel reinvents genre

    Emma Cline’s thoughtful and penetrating debut novel, The Girls, is partially inspired by the Manson family exploits of the 1960s, but the majority of Cline’s writing is built on themes that revolve around many adolescent females — judgment, acceptance and belonging.  Even though the novel is Cline’s inaugural major literary work, her finely tuned prose…