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, 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.
