{"product_id":"copy-of-second-youth-vernice-gabriel-jeanne-molli","title":"The Divines Ellie Eaton","description":"\u003cspan class=\"Formatted\"\u003eWith the emotional power of \u003ci\u003eNormal People\u003c\/i\u003e and the reflective haze of \u003ci\u003eThe Girls\u003c\/i\u003e, a magnetic novel that moves between present-day Los Angeles and a British boarding school in the 1990s, exploring the destructive relationships between teenage girls. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCan we ever really escape our past?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe girls of St John the Divine, an elite English boarding school, were notorious for flipping their hair, harassing teachers, chasing boys, and chain-smoking cigarettes. They were fiercely loyal, sharp-tongued, and cuttingly humorous in the way that only teenage girls can be. For Josephine, now in her thirties, the years at St John were a lifetime ago. She hasn’t spoken to another Divine in fifteen years, not since the day the school shuttered its doors in disgrace.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYet now Josephine inexplicably finds herself returning to her old stomping grounds. The visit provokes blurry recollections of those doomed final weeks that rocked the community. Ruminating on the past, Josephine becomes obsessed with her teenage identity and the forgotten girls of her one-time orbit. With each memory that resurfaces, she circles closer to the violent secret at the heart of the school’s scandal. But the more Josephine recalls, the further her life unravels, derailing not just her marriage and career, but her entire sense of self. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSuspenseful, provocative, and compulsively readable, The Divines is a scorching examination of the power of adolescent sexuality, female identity, and the destructive class divide. Exposing the tension between the lives we lead as adults and the experiences that form us, Eaton probes us to consider how our memories as adults compel us to reexamine our pasts.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Ex Libris Used Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44421759697123,"sku":"EXL1522","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/5675\/7951\/files\/53018367.jpg?v=1709004382","url":"https:\/\/www.exlibrismichigan.com\/products\/copy-of-second-youth-vernice-gabriel-jeanne-molli","provider":"Ex Libris Used Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}