Skid dogs / Emelia Symington-Fedy.
"A raw and riveting coming-of-age story about the wild love of teenage friendships and the casual oppression of 1990s rape culture. Emelia Symington-Fedy grew up with her girl gang on the railroad tracks of a small town in British Columbia. Unsupervised and wild, the girls explored the power and shortcomings of "best" friendships and their growing sexuality. Two decades later an eighteen-year-old girl is murdered on Halloween on the same tracks, and Emelia returns to her hometown to stay with her mother, who is fearful of a murderer at large. While the media narrows its focus on how the girl dared be alone on the tracks, Symington-Fedy slowly comes to terms with the mistreatment of her own teenage body. Giving a bold and often darkly humorous first-hand account of nineties rape culture and the sexual coercion that still permeates girlhood, Symington-Fedy holds her hometown close and accountable and exposes the subtle ways that misogyny shows up daily."-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781771623643 (paperback)
- Physical Description: 272 pages ; 23 cm
- Publisher: Madeira Park, British Columbia : Douglas and McIntyre, [2023]
- Copyright: ©2023
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Subject: | Symington-Fedy, Emelia. Teenage girls > Armstrong (B.C.) > Biography. Female gangs > Armstrong (B.C.) > Biography. Rape culture > Armstrong (B.C.) Coming of age > Armstrong (B.C.) |
Genre: | Autobiographies. |
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- 1 of 5 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 0 of 1 copy available at Grand Forks and District Public Library.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Grand Forks | BIO 362.88 SYM (Text) | 35142002782208 | Biography | Volume hold | Checked out | 2024-06-19 |