Plain Bad Heroines

At an eerie New England boarding school, a scandal between a pair of young lovers becomes a legend that refuses to die. Moving between the gilded 1900s and the present, the story folds past and present together with wicked humor and lush gothic atmosphere as a modern writer and a film crew reopen old wounds. Secrets, celebrity, and the complicated ways women protect and consume one another collide in a novel that is at once satirical and heartbreakingly intimate. Richly layered and fiercely funny, this is a queer odyssey about friendship, grief, fame, and the dangerous business of making women infamous.

~ Included for centering sapphic love, found family, and queer historical memory while balancing wicked humor with tender grief ~