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May 13, 2017m0mmyl00 rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Evie Boyd was a young teenager, feeling uncool and unpopular. She happened to see a group of desperately cool girls in the park one day and sort of fell in love with the ringleader. They were unkempt but confident and free, everything she wasn't and wanted to be. She began violating her sense of right and wrong -- by stealing money from her mother and giving it to them -- in an attempt to belong with them. They were fine with that, and even honored her by making a gift of her to the man who headed their little traveling commune. She eventually moved in with them and adopted their lifestyle. The story is ripped from the headlines of the Manson murder story. When the group killed a family Evie didn't happen to be there; her absence during the murders wasn't planned, it was mere chance. Now, as a middle aged woman, she wonders what she would have done if the circumstances had been different. In a chance encounter with an equally uncool teenage girl, she sees in her the desperate drive to belong; the willingness of the girl to violate her sense of right and wrong -- in this case to offer herself sexually to her boyfriend's friend -- in order to be accepted.