The Nowhere Girls
Books | Young Adult Fiction / Social Themes / Sexual Abuse
4.1
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Amy Reed
“A call-to-action to everyone out there who wants to fight back.” —Bustle “Scandal, justice, romance, sex positivity, subversive anti-sexism—just try to put it down.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Cuts straight to the core of rape culture—masterfully fierce, stirring, and deeply empowering.” —Amber Smith, New York Times bestselling author of The Way I Used to Be Three misfits come together to avenge the rape of a fellow classmate and trigger a change in the misogynist culture at their high school transforming the lives of everyone around them in this searing and timely story.Who are the Nowhere Girls? They’re everygirl. But they start with just three: Grace Salter is the new girl in town, whose family was run out of their former community after her southern Baptist preacher mom turned into a radical liberal after falling off a horse and bumping her head. Rosina Suarez is the queer punk girl in a conservative Mexican immigrant family, who dreams of a life playing music instead of babysitting her gaggle of cousins and waitressing at her uncle’s restaurant. Erin Delillo is obsessed with two things: marine biology and Star Trek: The Next Generation, but they aren’t enough to distract her from her suspicion that she may in fact be an android. When Grace learns that Lucy Moynihan, the former occupant of her new home, was run out of town for having accused the popular guys at school of gang rape, she’s incensed that Lucy never had justice. For their own personal reasons, Rosina and Erin feel equally deeply about Lucy’s tragedy, so they form an anonymous group of girls at Prescott High to resist the sexist culture at their school, which includes boycotting sex of any kind with the male students. Told in alternating perspectives, this groundbreaking novel is an indictment of rape culture and explores with bold honesty the deepest questions about teen girls and sexuality.
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Author
Amy Reed
Pages
432
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Published Date
2019-07-09
ISBN
1481481746 9781481481748
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"I just binge-read this last night, I bought it for my bookshop, and I looked at it and wanted to read it. It feels like it brings a lot of light to the question "what is a victim" I'm glad they had multicultural rep, lgbt rep, neuro divergent rep, and the end leaves you feeling a little bit good through all the rest of the pain"
"DNF. though i dident read the whole thing there are quite a few reasons i stopped reading around page 50. One of the major ones the the huge info dump of the characters at the beginning of the book. I think there were much more natural ways to introduce theres characters then to tell us there entire backstory all at once. Such as when Grace meets Erin I think that would have been a better way to establish Erin's character and to reveal stuff about her later, than to just spend an entire chapter info dumping before the story begins. Also the fact that the way the book trys to add diversity is making all the characters walking sterotypes and cliches, Grace is the religous one, Erin is the one with Aspergurs, and Rosina is gay and thats about the end of their personalitys... even when trying to show that not all characters are stereotypes (as they tried to do with the cheerleaders) they use overused cliches, such as the one that wants to be smart and pretty but cant choose, or the one thats wants to be sporty but cant cause "shes a girl." Maybe it gets better later on but with the odd choices already made i will not be finsihing this book. "
"I certainly see why this got such great reviews! This was easily the most powerful novel I have read all year. It was horrible, and yet it was also quite beautiful. The way that so many girls, girls of all different walks of life, came together and worked to make a difference in their community was so incredibly moving. This one is going on the favourites list for sure. Amazing."
"i loved the diversity of the book. all the characters are different from one another and none of them are exactly the same. it's a really good book and it brings light on different topics of the world that people don't talk about. the fact that the main characters all have real people problems makes the book even better."