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Sixteen year olds Maya and Roe form an intense friendship when they find themselves cast as outsiders at an all girls boarding school. Sharing their life stories, and curiosity about the adult world, they wonder how they might become "people" with style and character as opposed to school girls. When they move beyond the enclosed world of the school to experience the city, and relationships with men, both girls test the line between an emerging sense of self and its total disintegration.
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Mazime Swann's short story "Flower Children" won the Cohen Award, The O. Henry Award, the Pushcart Prize and was included in The Best American Short Stories. Serious Girls is her first novel.
"When does your life assume its course?" wonders 16-year-old Maya, who is lonely at boarding school until she meets Roe, a fellow outsider. The girls form an intense friendship, taking long walks, trying on clothes (and new identities) in thrift shops, and confiding their fears and questions: "What makes a person a person?" "When does life begin?" Vowing to have "interesting lives" and to collect experience above all, they enter troubled sexual relationships: Maya with a 32-year-old man, and Roe with a physically abusive teenager. The affairs end, after great pain, and the girls return to their philosophical wanderings, deciding this time to enjoy things, not just experience them. Roe remembers her dreams with a "hallucinatory precision," and the same can be said for Swann's prose. In her debut novel, she writes with a cool detachment and poetic beauty about the largest questions and the meaning in the smallest gestures. And in Maya's voice, she tells an elegant yet raw coming-of-age story about earnest young women who yearn to be "more distinct than the rest." Gillian Engberg
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