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Christian Dittus |
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AMERICAN GIRLS
(UK title: MY FAVORITE MANSON GIRL)
Anna is a fifteen-year-old girl slouching toward adulthood and she's had it with her life at home. With her parents recently separated and her mother's attention split between a new partner and a new baby, Anna feels pushed out of her own family. So it doesn't seem like a terrible thing to run away to Los Angeles, where Anna's sister, a wannabe actress, takes her in. All Anna wants to do is to find a place to land, but LA isn't quite the glamorous escape she had imagined. Too bad she's stuck there until she can pay back the airfare money she stole.
To make some cash, Anna engrosses herself in a project researching the murderous Manson girls. Although the violence in her own life is emotional and not physical, she begins to notice the parallels between herself and the lost girls of LA, and of America, past and present. It is only in Hollywood, where wannabe stars' "work attire" is zombie or serial killer costumes, that you can't tell killers from actors.
In Anna's singular voice, we glimpse not only a picture of life on the periphery of the glitz and the glam, but also a clear-eyed reflection on being young, vulnerable, lost, and female in America. With razor-sharp prose, Alison Umminger writes about girls, sex, violence, and which people society deems worthy of caring about, which ones it doesn't. Umminger takes us to a city where everyone spends their lives reaching for the big dream but where perhaps the real trick is just learning how to be regular.
To make some cash, Anna engrosses herself in a project researching the murderous Manson girls. Although the violence in her own life is emotional and not physical, she begins to notice the parallels between herself and the lost girls of LA, and of America, past and present. It is only in Hollywood, where wannabe stars' "work attire" is zombie or serial killer costumes, that you can't tell killers from actors.
In Anna's singular voice, we glimpse not only a picture of life on the periphery of the glitz and the glam, but also a clear-eyed reflection on being young, vulnerable, lost, and female in America. With razor-sharp prose, Alison Umminger writes about girls, sex, violence, and which people society deems worthy of caring about, which ones it doesn't. Umminger takes us to a city where everyone spends their lives reaching for the big dream but where perhaps the real trick is just learning how to be regular.
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