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THE TRIBES OF PALOS VERDES
By: Joy Nicholson
St. Martin's Griffin
January 2019
On Sale: December 25, 2018
224 pages
ISBN: 1250112567
EAN: 9781250112569
Kindle: B00F8I199K
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Joy Nicholson's The Tribes of Palos Verdes is a Los Angeles Times bestseller and now a major motion picture starring Jennifer Garner, Maika Monroe, and Cody Fern. โNicholson captures the California-coast culture. . . . Medina shows what itโs like to feel โsix million years oldโ way before your time."โEntertainment Weekly โImpressive . . . Captures what it is to be young, intelligent, and very alone.โโUs Weekly โNicholsonโs evocation of character, her ability to bring Medina fully to life, makes this work. She writes with snapshot immediacy. . . . A writer to keep in mind.โโDavid Ulin, Salon Medina Mason is a defiant, awkward fourteen-year-old living in the affluent beach community of Palos Verdes, California. The pressure is intense in their high-stakes world, and Medinaโs family begins to break under the stress. Her parentsโ marriage disintegrates and her beloved brother turns to drugs in order to cope. Medina turns to the ocean to escape it all. She surfs to survive, finding a bitter solace in the rough comfort of the waves. โAn inspiring portrait of a young woman unswayed by other peopleโs pettinessโ (Mademoiselle), this is the moving story of growing up โdifferent,โ of the love between siblings, and of one girlโs power to save herself
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