The Rehearsal

A daring novel about a high-school sex scandal that jolts a group of teenage girls into a new awareness of their own potency and power, this is an exhilarating and provocative story about the complicated mess of human desire. Further enhancing these emotions, the boundaries between the public and private spheres blur when the local drama school decides to turn the scandal into a show. Noted for its startling originality, the tale is at once a tender evocation of its young protagonists and a shrewd exposè of emotional compromise.