Torn Skirt Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance each is haunted by past

each is haunted by past betrayals that surface

for more than twenty years

Silas is diagnosed with Veil sickness—a mysterious disease sending violet-eyed women into madness—and shipped away to Braxton’s Finishing School and Sanitorium

Shiva Margolin

in which he pushes his political and ecological efforts even further

Torn Skirt Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance each is haunted by pastFrom Rebecca Godfrey, author of UNDER THE BRIDGE now streaming on Hulu, starring Lily Gladstone and Riley Keough a fierce and tender portrait of two weeks in the life of a troubled teenager. "The Torn Skirt is a hot book, a thrilling romance of teen rage and longing like S. E. Hinton's The Outsiders, except about girls." Mary Gaitskill, author of This is Pleasure and Bad Behavior At Mt. Douglas (a. k. a. Mt. Drug) High, all the girls have feathered