The Torn Skirt

Description

From Rebecca Godfrey, author of UNDER THE BRIDGE – now streaming on Hulu, starring Lily Gladstone and Riley Keough – a fierce and tender portrait of two weeks in the life of a troubled teenager.

“The Torn Skirt is a hot book, a thrilling romance of teen rage and longing – like S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, except about girls.” — Mary Gaitskill, author of This is Pleasure and Bad Behavior

At Mt. Douglas (a.k.a. Mt. Drug) High, all the girls have feathered hair, and the sweet scent of Love’s Baby Soft can’t hide the musk of raw teenage anger, apathy, and desire. Sara Shaw is a girl full of fever and longing, a girl looking for something risky, something real. Her only possible salvation comes in the willowy form of the mysterious Justine, the outlaw girl in the torn skirt. The search for Justine will lead Sara on a daring odyssey into an underworld of hookers and johns, junkies and thieves, runaway girls and skater boys, and, ultimately, into a violent tragedy.

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Rebecca Godfrey
Published: 08/12/2008
Publisher: Harper Perennial
ISBN: 9780061567100
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.37lbs
Size: 0.56″ H x 8.01″ L x 5.30″ W

About the Author
Godfrey, Rebecca: –

Rebecca Godfrey (1967-2022) was an award-winning novelist and journalist. Her books include The Torn Skirt, finalist for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize; the award-winning true crime story Under the Bridge, the inspiration behind a Hulu limited series starring Lily Gladstone and Riley Keough as Rebecca Godfrey; and her final novel Peggy, a fictionalized account of Peggy Guggenheim’s coming of age. Godfrey earned her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and taught writing at Columbia University. She lived with her husband and daughter in upstate New York.