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The American Girl : A Novel by Fagerholm, Monika; Tucker, Katarina is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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In 1969, a young girl makes a trip from Coney Island to the swampy coastland on the rural outskirts of Helsinki, Finland. There, her death will immediately become part of local mythology, furnishing boys and girls with fodder for endless romantic imaginings. Everyone who lives near the swamp dreams about Eddie de Wire, the lost American girl. . . . For both Sandra and Doris, two lonely, dreaming girls abandoned in different ways by their parents, this myth will propel them into their coming-of-age through mischievous role-playing games of love and death, in search of hidden secrets, the mysteries of the swamp, and the truth behind Eddie's death. The girls construct their own world, their own language, and their own rules. But playing adult games has adult consequences, and what begins as two girls just striking matches leads to an inferno that threatens to consume them and tear their friendship apart. Crime mystery and gothic saga, social study and chronicle of the late sixties and early seventies, a portrait of the psyche of young girls on the cusp of sexual awakening, The American Girl is a bewitching glimpse of the human capacity for survival and for self-inflicte

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Author

Fagerholm, Monika; Tucker, Katarina

Publisher

Other Press, LLC

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781590513835

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Mystery, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.5 / 5 (446 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14