Brutes -- Dizz Tate, Hardcover

The Virgin Suicides meets The Florida Project in this wildly original debut--a coming-of-age story about the crucible of girlhood, from a writer of rare and startling talent

We would not be born out of sweetness, we were born out of rage, we felt it in our bones.

In Falls Landing, Florida--a place built of theme parks, swampy lakes, and scorched bougainvillea flowers--something sinister lurks in the deep. A gang of thirteen-year-old girls obsessively orbit around the local preacher's daughter, Sammy. She is mesmerizing, older, and in love with Eddie. But suddenly, Sammy goes missing. Where is she? Watching from a distance, they edge ever closer to discovering a dark secret about their fame-hungry town and the cruel cost of a ticket out. What they see will continue to haunt them for the rest of their lives.

Through a darkly beautiful and brutally compelling lens, Dizz Tate captures the violence, horrors, and manic joys of girlhood. Brutes is a novel about the seemingly unbreakable bonds in the "we" of young friendship, and the moment it is broken forever.

Author: Dizz Tate
Publisher: Catapult
Published: 02/07/2023
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.04lbs
Size: 8.54h x 5.90w x 1.13d
ISBN: 9781646221677

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 09/01/2022 pg. 9
Booklist 11/01/2022 pg. 43
Kirkus Reviews 11/15/2022
Publishers Weekly 11/21/2022