Emma Cline
4 SeriesEmma Cline is an American author known for her literary fiction, published in The New Yorker, Tin House, Granta, and The Paris Review, where she won the Plimpton Prize. In 2017, she was named one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists. She hails from California.
In Emma Cline's debut novel, "The Girls," set in Northern California at the end of the 1960s, lonely teenager Evie Boyd becomes enamored with a group of free-spirited girls she sees in the park. Captivated by the charismatic Suzanne, Evie is drawn into a cult led by a manipulative man, finding their eerie ranch both thrilling and exotic. As Evie spends more time with the cult, distancing herself from her mother and normal life, her obsession with Suzanne grows. Unbeknownst to her, Evie is steadily approaching a horrifying act of violence.
