Kirkus Reviews ( STARRED) - Kirkus ReviewsĪnatomy of a Girl Gang is a riveting read, an important read. Library Journal - Library Journalīoth gripping and moving, Anatomy of a Girl Gang is a tight, grim portrait with deep empathy for characters capable of horrific deeds. Relentlessly gritty and in your face, this novel makes some urban lit look like just bling. Told with shocking and at times brutal honesty, Anatomy of a Girl Gang is a vivid and unnerving story of urban girl culture. As they navigate from ATM robberies to cooking crack on the stove to savagely avenging the beating of one of their own, they hope and wait for better days that will turn into a better life, even as the darkness of fate draws inevitably nearer. Winner, Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize (BC Book Prizes)Ī sharply observed novel told in six voices, Anatomy of a Girl Gang is the powerful exploration of a young girl gang in Vancouver called the Black Roses: Mac, the self-appointed leader and mastermind Mercy, the Punjabi princess with a skill for theft Kayos, their former classmate who gave birth to a daughter at age thirteen Sly Girl, who fled her First Nations reserve for a better life, only to find depravity and addiction and Z, a sixteen-year-old anti-establishment graffiti artist.Ĭast out by mainstream society, the five girls terrorize Vancouver with a primal, restless urgency.
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