{"id":4177,"date":"2016-09-03T19:51:12","date_gmt":"2016-09-03T19:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=4177"},"modified":"2016-09-03T19:51:12","modified_gmt":"2016-09-03T19:51:12","slug":"the-girls-by-emma-cline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=4177","title":{"rendered":"The Girls by Emma Cline"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4217\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4217\" style=\"width: 133px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.uhls.org\/iii\/encore\/record\/C__Rb1652957\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4217\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/The-Girls-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Girls\" width=\"133\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/The-Girls-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/The-Girls.jpg 398w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 133px) 100vw, 133px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4217\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u2191 Reserve a copy \u2191<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This debut novel for Emma Cline is\u00a0very true to the 1960s, with young girls looking to find themselves and ending up finding security in cults. The main character, \u00a0Evie, is lost &#8212; her parents just got divorced, her dad is living with a younger woman, her mom is trying to find a new husband, and Evie and her best friend\u00a0have a falling out. \u00a0What\u00a0she ends up finding is\u00a0this clan of girls\u00a0in the park.\u00a0 That\u00a0leads her to their ranch, where she gets drawn into their wild lifestyle of drugs, sex, and eventually horrible crime.\u00a0 The story starts in Evie&#8217;s present time and keeps flashing back to tell this story. \u00a0I enjoyed this weird book, which concentrated not on the horribleness of this time, but more on the relationship between the girls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This debut novel for Emma Cline is\u00a0very true to the 1960s, with young girls looking to find themselves and ending up finding security in cults. The main character, \u00a0Evie, is lost &#8212; her parents just got divorced, her dad is living with a younger woman, her mom is trying to find a new husband, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=4177\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Girls by Emma Cline<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,8,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-joann"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}