Sorority Sorority

Publisher Description

Sisterhood is forever…whether you like it or not.

Prep meets Girls in White Dresses in Genevieve Sly Crane’s deliciously addictive, voyeuristic exploration of female friendship and coming of age that will appeal to anyone who has ever been curious about what happens in a sorority house.

Twinsets and pearls, secrets and kinship, rituals that hold sisters together in a sacred bond of everlasting trust. Certain chaste images spring to mind when one thinks of sororities. But make no mistake: these women are not braiding each other’s hair and having pillow fights—not by a long shot.

What Genevieve Sly Crane has conjured in these pages is a blunt, in-your-face look behind the closed doors of a house full of contemporary women—and there are no holds barred. These women have issues: self-inflicted, family inflicted, sister-to-sister inflicted—and it is all on the page. At the center of this swirl is Margot: the sister who died in the house, and each chapter is told from the points of view of the women who orbit her death and have their own reactions to it.

With a keen sense of character and elegant, observant prose, Crane details the undercurrents of tension in a world where perfection comes at a cost and the best things in life are painful—if not impossible—to acquire: Beauty. A mother’s love. And friendship…or at least the appearance of it. Woven throughout are glimmers of the classical myths that undercut the lives of women in Greek life. After all, the Greek goddesses did cause their fair share of destruction….

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2018
May 1
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
304
Pages
PUBLISHER
Gallery/Scout Press
SELLER
Simon & Schuster Digital Sales LLC
SIZE
5.2
MB

Customer Reviews

Mahrukh khan ,

Twisted and haunting

There are chapters that are grotesque and disturbing and I couldn’t get it out of my mind, but I feel this is a testemant to good writing. I saw a lot of reviews saying none of the characters were like able, but that’s exactly the point. They’re not supposed to be like-able or relatable. Despite the some of their horrid behavior towards each other I couldn’t help but feel for each of them a little bit. I loved the character study formatting of this novel. Some of their backgrounds will be heartbreaking, some of them might have little pieces of a character that remind of a part of yourself, a relationship or friendship you’ve had at some point. Overall this novel wasn’t trying to have a clear and set “ending” and I’m okay with that. This novel successfully moved me. It’s psychological and even a little bit philosophical at times. This was a really quick read for me because I couldn’t stop reading even at the parts that made me feel like throwing up! This book is definitely not for everybody but if you love a dark read, with extremely damaged female characters check it out

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