Scapegrace

Scapegrace, n.: A mischievous or wayward person, especially a young person or child; a rascalFive teenage girls share everything: clothes, hopes, fears, and secrets. But the world is changing as fast as the girls and the group fragments, stirring frightening but exhilarating forces. Gina is accused of arson, her brother Johnny of dealing drugs. Rose frets over her awakening desires. Alice is disturbed by mysterious spirits. Cora flaunts herself recklessly, and Ellie knows there is more to growing up than all of this. Twenty-one years later, Alice—the center of this group of 70s bad girls—gives up her struggle to conform and returns home to attempt to find her lost friends, map her own identity, and make sense of the intense heat she ran from all those years ago. Jackie Gay's first novel is a tenderly sardonic account of growing up in the wrong—a fiery mixture of desire, conflict, and hard-won outlaw pride.