Girls On Fire: A Novel

"Robin Wasserman’s terrifying thriller is the story of two teenage girls, outcasts in their small western Pennsylvania town in the early 1990s. The girls’ hatred of a popular classmate quickly takes a dark turn that just keeps getting darker. Wasserman’s novel turns the Satanic panic of the Reagan-Bush years on its head, and the result is a novel that’s terrifying, upsetting and hypnotically beautiful. There’s not a false step in it, and you never want it to end, although you know it has to. It’s an inferno of a book — brutally gorgeous — and you know it could explode at any time, but you can’t turn away, even for a second."