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Ugly Girls (2014)

by Lindsay Hunter(Favorite Author)

3.41 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0374533865 (ISBN13: 9780374533861)

languge

English

genre

Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction

publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

review 1: Life sucks, and then you die. That’s a fair description of this book, which plots the dead-end course of its characters to their sordid conclusions or leaves them on the edge of the cliff. It’s not good and it’s going to get worse. You could say its a microcosm for society at large and you wouldn’t be too wrong. Fatalism is the ruling political party, not that this is an overtly political book. It’s more a traditional narrative, set in the fairly untraditional place of a trailer park, and a slice of the people’s lives who live there, which is cutting and sure to leave a mark.
review 2: Trailer Park Noir at it's finest. It's funny and dark. The characters are complex. I don't want to spoil anything about the ending but I will say I liked it, and she ... moreleaves some to interpretation. This book is consistent with all of the other great Noir novels to come out this year. It is also consistent with all the great female noir that has come out this year such Megan Abbott's The Fever and Lauren Beukes' Broken Monsters. Hunters' Ugly Girls are ugly on the inside even if they are pretty on the outside! This will be in a lot of top 10 lists for 2014. Mine atleast! less

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