Plain Bad Heroines: A Novel
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Emily M. Danforth., Emily M. Danforth|AUTHOR., & Sara Lautman|ILLUSTRATOR. (2020). Plain Bad Heroines: A Novel . HarperCollins Publishers.

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Emily M. Danforth, Emily M. Danforth|AUTHOR and Sara Lautman|ILLUSTRATOR. 2020. Plain Bad Heroines: A Novel. HarperCollins Publishers.

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Emily M. Danforth, Emily M. Danforth|AUTHOR and Sara Lautman|ILLUSTRATOR. Plain Bad Heroines: A Novel HarperCollins Publishers, 2020.

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Emily M. Danforth, Emily M. Danforth|AUTHOR, and Sara Lautman|ILLUSTRATOR. Plain Bad Heroines: A Novel HarperCollins Publishers, 2020.

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Our story begins in 1902, at The Brookhants School for Girls. Flo and Clara, two impressionable students, are obsessed with each other and with a daring young writer named Mary MacLane, author of a scandalous best-selling memoir that transforms these acolytes into bold rebels. To show their devotion to Mary, the girls establish their own private club and call it The Plain Bad Heroine Society. They meet in secret in a nearby apple orchard, a seeming paradise, the setting of their wildest happiness and, ultimately, of their macabre deaths. This is where their bodies are later discovered, a copy of Mary's book splayed beside them, the victims of a swarm of stinging, angry yellow jackets. Less than five years later, the School for Girls closes its doors forever - but not before three more people mysteriously die on the property, each in a most troubling manner. 

Over a century later, the now abandoned and crumbling Brookhants is back in the news when wunderkind writer, Merritt Emmons, publishes a breakout book celebrating the queer, feminist history surrounding the "haunted and cursed" gilded-age institution. Her best seller inspires a controversial horror film adaptation starring celebrity actor and lesbian it girl Harper Harper playing the ill-fated heroine Flo, opposite B-list actress and former child star Audrey Wells, as Clara. But as Brookhants opens its gates once again, and our three modern heroines arrive on set to begin filming, past and present become grimly entangled - or perhaps just grimly exploited - and soon it's impossible to tell where the curse leaves off and Hollywood begins. A story within a story within a story and featuring black-and-white period illustrations, Plain Bad Heroines is a devilishly haunting, modern masterwork of metafiction that manages to combine the ghostly sensibility of Sarah Waters with the dark imagination of Marisha Pessl and the sharp humor and incisive social commentary of Curtis Sittenfeld into one laugh-out-loud funny, spellbinding, and wonderfully luxuriant listen.
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