Cline’s second novel, due out from Random House on 16 May 2023.
, Emma Cline’s brief and beautiful novel about a lonely young girl in 1969 California who gets swept up in a mysterious hippie “family” hiding some Manson-esque secrets. Now, a few years after, follows Alex, a young woman summering on Long Island with an older man who abruptly tries to send her back to the city.
began with the character of Alex and the question of who this person was, what she was doing floating around the edges of this dark, perverse world. I wanted to see, too, if I could sustain some of the tension and forward momentum of a short story, while also holding the world of a novel at the same time,” Cline says.
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