Juliet Escoria
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Ambitious, talented fourteen-year-old honors student Juliet is poised for success at her Southern California high school. However, she soon finds herself on an increasingly frightening spiral of drug use, self-harm, and mental illness that lands her in a remote therapeutic boarding school, where she must ultimately find the inner strength to survive. -- from Amazon.
Author
Publisher
Soft Skull
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In You Are the Snake, we peer into the life of a community college student, the life of an abusive grandmother is imagined, and a young woman takes up gardening. Escoria's characters are trying their best, or they aren't, as they bump against the boundaries of society's expectations. While Escoria plumbs the depth of girlhood and new womanhood, she leaves room for oddness, impulse, and yearning. Each story contains its own world, be it the suburbs...
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