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Sam and his older brother are spending the summer in an Outer Banks beach town. Mysteriously, beautiful girls are everywhere; ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

September Girls is a unique and memorable comic novel that’s also a moving coming-of-age story (with a twist on the selkie legend). Strikingly funny and insightful, with a gift for withering sarcasm, Sam is an exceptional narrator. When, for example, Sam complains about his dad’s propensity to spout inspirational bromides, he says: “The most obnoxious thing about them was their tendency to land on the topic of my supposedly impending manhood: that it was time to be a man, or man up, or act like a man, et cetera, et cetera. The whole subject was creepy—with vague impl...Log In or Sign Up to Read More