Brutes

"On the first page of Dizz Tate’s debut novel, a 14-year-old girl has gone missing from Falls Landing, Florida, where screams from nearby theme parks ripple through the air. Instead of focusing on the missing girl, Tate makes the far more compelling choice to zoom in on her pack of 13-year-old friends who are used to blending into the background – and who know far more than the town’s adults. In plunging the reader into the girls’ collective perspective, Brutes makes for an original and stylistically ambitious take on the well-trodden subject matter of girls in peril."