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Skid Dogs

Emelia Symington-Fedy
4.20/5 (349 ratings)
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"I can't remember the last time I read a book so brave. Maybe never." Ani Difranco

"I fell hard for this scrappy, resilient young heroine of Skid Dogs and the wise narrator that mediates her story. An essential tale of girlhood survival."
- Melissa Febos, Author of Girlhood. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle.

A raw and riveting coming-of-age story about the wild love of teenage friendships and the casual oppression of 90s rape culture. Emelia Symington-Fedy grew up with her girl gang on the railroad tracks of a small town in British Columbia. Unsupervised and wild, the girls explored the power and shortcomings of “best” friendships and their growing sexuality. Two decades later an eighteen-year-old girl is murdered on Halloween on the same tracks, and Symington-Fedy returns to her hometown to stay with her mother, who is fearful of a murderer at large. While the media narrows its focus on how the girl dared be alone on the tracks, Symington-Fedy slowly comes to terms with the mistreatment of her own teenage body. Giving a bold and often darkly humorous first-hand account of nineties rape culture and the sexual coercion that still permeates girlhood, Symington-Fedy holds her hometown close and accountable and exposes the subtle ways that misogyny shows up daily.

Award-winning poet and author Aislinn Hunter describes Skid Dogs as a “riveting, raucous and tender look at growing up a girl in a boy’s world. […] Beautifully written and bravely told, this book is the Stand By Me for girls that’s been far too long in coming.”
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1771623640
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9781771623643
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B0CH8MT96X

Skid Dogs

Emelia Symington-Fedy
4.20/5 (349 ratings)
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"I can't remember the last time I read a book so brave. Maybe never." Ani Difranco

"I fell hard for this scrappy, resilient young heroine of Skid Dogs and the wise narrator that mediates her story. An essential tale of girlhood survival."
- Melissa Febos, Author of Girlhood. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle.

A raw and riveting coming-of-age story about the wild love of teenage friendships and the casual oppression of 90s rape culture. Emelia Symington-Fedy grew up with her girl gang on the railroad tracks of a small town in British Columbia. Unsupervised and wild, the girls explored the power and shortcomings of “best” friendships and their growing sexuality. Two decades later an eighteen-year-old girl is murdered on Halloween on the same tracks, and Symington-Fedy returns to her hometown to stay with her mother, who is fearful of a murderer at large. While the media narrows its focus on how the girl dared be alone on the tracks, Symington-Fedy slowly comes to terms with the mistreatment of her own teenage body. Giving a bold and often darkly humorous first-hand account of nineties rape culture and the sexual coercion that still permeates girlhood, Symington-Fedy holds her hometown close and accountable and exposes the subtle ways that misogyny shows up daily.

Award-winning poet and author Aislinn Hunter describes Skid Dogs as a “riveting, raucous and tender look at growing up a girl in a boy’s world. […] Beautifully written and bravely told, this book is the Stand By Me for girls that’s been far too long in coming.”
Format:
Pages:
pages
Publication:
Publisher:
Edition:
Language:
ISBN10:
1771623640
ISBN13:
9781771623643
kindle Asin:
B0CH8MT96X

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