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Cut meets Hatchet in this lacerating debut about girls, knives, and redemption. The Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness Area stretches across two million acres in northern Idaho. In its heart sits the Alice Marshall School, where fifty teenage girls come to escape their histories and themselves. Lida Wallace has tried to negate herself in every way possible. At Alice Marshall, she meets Elsa Boone, a fierce native Idahoan; Jules, who seems too healthy to belong at the school; and Gia Longchamps, whose glamour entrances the entire camp. As the girls prepare for a wilderness trek, Lida is both thrilled and terrified to be chosen as Gia's friend. But everyone has their secrets--their "Things" they try to protect; and when those come out, the knives do as well. The Girls of No Return is a bold and powerful debut. "This debut is richly rewarding and will linger for its subtle examination of human behavior and emotions-love, trust, guilt and forgiveness. A smashing debut." -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review"Secrets and lies, betrayal and trust, friends and enemies-there are weighty themes at the heart of this bold, compelling debut novel… So much more than a typical problem novel, this psychological mind-bender is raw, gripping, and deftly rolled out by a writer-to-watch." -- Booklist, starred review"[A] smart, absorbing story about damaged girls realizing how hard it is to connect with other people when you don't trust anyone." -- New York Times Book Review"Saldin presents the complex, layered terrain of relationships that develop among teens who share cabins and cigarettes and bathhouse duty but often know only the bare minimum about one another's former lives…. The remote setting enhances the palpable sense of danger; some of the girls fear bears or mountain lions, but, really, the scariest thing they could confront in those woods is one another. And themselves." -- Horn Book"This debut novel is compelling…. Believable situations, conversations, and setting make this novel a must-read for not only the story, but the truths. Teens will not be able to put this one down." -- Library Media Connection Erin Saldin went on her first backpacking trip in northern Idaho at age fourteen. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times and the Best New American Voices series, as well as multiple literary magazines. She lives in Missoula, Montana. From The Girls of No Return She took out the underwear, the socks, the rain poncho, the flashlight. She took out first one hiking boot, and then the other. She took out the sock that I had stuffed in the second boot, and pulled out the knife. A long, silent minute passed. "We understand that you may have come here with old ways of being, old patterns of behavior, old habits." Beverly tapped the knife with her index finger without looking down at it. "Those behaviors that might endanger yourself or others are cause for immediate expulsion." She held the knife in front of her face and stared at me until I met her gaze. It was unflinching. I nodded. Beverly placed the knife next to her on the chair and repacked my bag. Then she stood up and held out her hand. "Welcome to Alice Marshall," she said. "This debut is richly rewarding and will linger for its subtle examination of human behavior and emotions-love, trust, guilt and forgiveness. A smashing debut." -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review"Secrets and lies, betrayal and trust, friends and enemies-there are weighty themes at the heart of this bold, compelling debut novel… So much more than a typical problem novel, this psychological mind-bender is raw, gripping, and deftly rolled out by a writer-to-watch." -- Booklist, starred review"[A] smart, absorbing story about damaged girls realizing how hard it is to connect with other people when you don't trust anyone." -- New York Time
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