Saturday, January 15, 2022

Eleven creepy cliques in literature

Erin Mayer is a freelance writer and editor. Her work has appeared on Bustle, The Today Show, Man Repeller, Literary Hub, and others. A lifelong New Yorker, she now resides in Maine with her husband and her enamel pin collection.

Fan Club is her first novel.

At The Strand Magazine Mayer tagged eleven favorite enigmatic cliques in literature, including:
The Lightness by Emily Temple

Teenage Olivia runs away in search of her missing father, heading to his last-known location, what she calls “Buddhist Boot Camp for Bad Girls.” There, she meets a trio of unusual girls on an obsessive (and perhaps dangerous) quest for levitation.
Read about another entry on the list.

The Lightness is among Micah Nemerever's five novels about destructive romantic friendships.

My Book, The Movie: The Lightness.

The Page 69 Test: The Lightness.

--Marshal Zeringue