Brutes

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, and 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 orbit around the local preacher's daughter, Sammy. She is mesmerizing, older, and in love with Eddie. 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.

 

Through a darkly beautiful and brutally compelling lens, 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 it is broken forever.

Author: Dizz Tate
Publisher: Catapult
Published: 02/07/2023
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.04lbs
Size: 8.54h x 5.90w x 1.13d
ISBN: 9781646221677

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 09/01/2022 pg. 9
Booklist 11/01/2022 pg. 43
Kirkus Reviews 11/15/2022
Publishers Weekly 11/21/2022