![]() ![]() Steve is accused of being an accomplice in the robbery and murder of a drug store owner. In a riveting novel from Myers (At Her Majesty’s Request, 1999, etc.), a teenager who dreams of being a filmmaker writes the story of his trial for felony murder in the form of a movie script, with journal entries after each day’s action. Ferris subtly and skillfully divines slim hope and a glimmer of choice from the necessarily weighted stories of the girls on the inside, making for a compelling read. The author puts together an abrasive, volatile, and abused set of characters at the center is Dallas, whose vacillating emotions and internal blueprint for failure come across as lived experience. Life in the GRC is structured, isolating, rigorous, and sometimes violent. ![]() Her comrades forget her her father, who could have prevented her incarceration with a good word to the authorities, decides that serving her sentence will do Dallas some good. In the opening chapter, she is the reluctant gunwoman in a failed hold-up of a convenience store, which lands her six months in the GRC. Dallas is a bad girl, who thrills to the dangers of “skating”’shoplifting, purse-snatching, joyriding, having sex in public places-that almost fill the vacuum she feels inside. 1115, etc.) chooses an unusual locale-the Girls’ Rehabilitation Center, or GRC- for this story about a teenager’s attempt to bring herself into focus. ![]()
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