Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Shirley Jackson Award for Novel | 2016 | Winner |
About This Book
In 1969 Northern California, fourteen-year-old Evie Boyd is drawn to a group of older girls in a Manson-like cult—a hypnotic debut about female adolescence, belonging, and the seductive darkness of charismatic manipulation.
About the Author
Emma Cline is an American author who won the Shirley Jackson Award for Novel for The Girls (2016), a coming-of-age psychological thriller about a girl on the margins of a Manson-like cult in 1960s Northern California. The novel was a major literary sensation upon publication, earning a large advance and critical acclaim. Born in 1989 in Sonoma County, California, Cline studied at Middlebury College and Columbia University. Read more →
