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All Girls by Emily Layden.

⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️.5/5

After a faculty member is accused of sexually assaulting an alumnae years ago, we see into the lives & perspectives of young girls in the Atwater Boarding school, as they face this news, & also contemplate their girlhood.

While this book is about sexual assault, imbalanced power dynamics between students and teachers and the establishments that fail to protect these young girls, it’s also really about girlhood. About being a teenage girl in a world that seems so much larger than her,

on the cusp of breaking into the real world, while also living when your emotions are most strong and raw and real. The uncertainty, the unbridled hope.

I really felt like it transported me back to my own teenage years (which is really not one I look back at all that much usually). It took me back to how I felt as a young girl with all these hopes and dreams as I stood on the cusp of adulthood.

My biggest issue is just how many characters are there. There are many I really enjoyed reading. Some I even related to, but at some point I felt like there were too many, and I lost track of them. I feel like having 4-5 characters and rotating through their stories

throughout the school year would’ve been better.

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