For Hazlitt, Anna Fitzpatrick tagged
four books "featuring small towns, teen girls, intimate friendships on the border between love and hate, and brutal murders," including:
Megan Abbott’s books [are] high school stories for a grownup readership. The Fever is also based on the Le Roy story, featuring an unnamed epidemic that hits only teen girls. It’s the follow-up to Abbott’s 2012 novel, Dare Me, a high school noir starring a cheerleading squad. The friendship between Beth, the squad’s captain, and Addy, her beta best friend, is strained when a new, young coach arrives with her own way of doing things. Addy is enchanted by this coach. Beth is not. And then there is a murder.
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My Book, The Movie: The Fever.
--Marshal Zeringue
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