![]() In another way, though, Cline’s novel is itself a complicated mixture of freshness and worldly sophistication. The novel charts Evie’s accelerated sentimental education, as she is inducted into the imprisoning liberties of free love, drugs, and eventual violence, all of it under the sway of the cult’s magus, Russell Hadrick. They are looking for food to take back to the ranch where they live. Evie Boyd, an only child whose upper-middle-class parents have recently divorced, wants to be older than her fourteen years, and is drawn to the free-spirited, rebellious young women she sees one day in a Petaluma park. It’s a story of corruption and abuse, set in 1969, in which a bored and groundless California teen-ager joins a Manson-like cult, with bloody, Manson-like results. ![]() ![]() Emma Cline’s first novel, “The Girls” (Random House), is a song of innocence and experience-in ways that she has intended, and perhaps in ways that she has not. ![]()
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