The Torn Skirt
By Rebecca Godfrey
(Harper Perennial, Paperback, 9780061567100, 224pp.)
Publication Date: July 24, 2008
Other Editions of This Title: Paperback (September 27, 2002), Hardcover (September 2001)
Categories: Coming of Age
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At Mt. Douglas (a.k.a. Mt. Drug) High, all the girls have feathered hair, and the sweet scent of Love's Baby Soft can't hide the musk of raw teenage anger, apathy, and desire. Sara Shaw is a girl full of fever and longing, a girl looking for something risky, something real. Her only possible salvation comes in the willowy form of the mysterious Justine, the outlaw girl in the torn skirt. The search for Justine will lead Sara on a daring odyssey into an underworld of hookers and johns, junkies and thieves, runaway girls and skater boys, and, ultimately, into a violent tragedy.
Rebecca Godfrey is an award-winning novelist and journalist. Her first novel, The Torn Skirt, was a national bestseller and a finalist for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. Her second book, Under The Bridge, an investigation into the Reena Virk case, was a Globe and Mail Book of the Year, and received the B.C. Award for Canadian Nonfiction and The Arthur Ellis Award for Nonfiction. Born in Toronto, and raised in Victoria, she currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.
"A dizzying mix of hope and despair."
-Oregonian
"Required reading."
-New York Post
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