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Brutes

A Novel

by Dizz Tate

Narrator Eleanor McCormick

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Length 6 hours 9 minutes

Language English

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“Dizz Tate’s Brutes captures the boredom, insecurity, longing, and casual cruelty of early adolescent girlhood. Keenly observant, these thirteen year olds are watching the adults and older girls for clues as to what life holds for them. The setting is well drawn, I could picture the Florida subdivision. These girls are not wealthy, they are betting on stardom to bring a brighter future. The story set in their youth is told from the perspective of the collective we, which brings home the collective group think common in those friendships at that time of life. The chapters set in adult lives are told from individual perspectives and are devastating in their own way.”
— Amy • A Great Good Place for Books

Summary

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.

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