{"product_id":"plain-bad-heroines","title":"Plain Bad Heroines","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe award-winning author of \u003cem\u003eThe Miseducation of\u003cbr\u003eCameron Post\u003c\/em\u003e makes her adult debut with this highly imaginative and\u003cbr\u003eoriginal horror-comedy centered around a cursed New England boarding school for\u003cbr\u003egirls--a wickedly whimsical celebration of the art of storytelling, sapphic\u003cbr\u003elove, and the rebellious female spirit.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA delectable brew of gothic horror and Hollywood satire\u003cbr\u003e. . . deliciously ghoulish. --Ron Charles, \u003cem\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOur story begins in 1902, at the Brookhants School for\u003cbr\u003eGirls. Flo and Clara, two impressionable students, are obsessed with each other\u003cbr\u003eand with a daring young writer named Mary MacLane, the author of a scandalous\u003cbr\u003ebestselling memoir. To show their devotion to Mary, the girls establish their\u003cbr\u003eown private club and call it the Plain Bad Heroine Society. They meet in secret\u003cbr\u003ein a nearby apple orchard, the setting of their wildest happiness and, \u003cbr\u003eultimately, of their macabre deaths. This is where their bodies are later\u003cbr\u003ediscovered with a copy of Mary's book splayed beside them, the victims of a\u003cbr\u003eswarm of stinging, angry yellow jackets. Less than five years later, the\u003cbr\u003eBrookhants School for Girls closes its doors forever--but not before three more\u003cbr\u003epeople mysteriously die on the property, each in a most troubling way.\u003cbr\u003eOver a century later, the now abandoned and crumbling\u003cbr\u003eBrookhants is back in the news when wunderkind writer Merritt Emmons publishes\u003cbr\u003ea breakout book celebrating the queer, feminist history surrounding the haunted\u003cbr\u003eand cursed Gilded Age institution. Her bestselling book inspires a\u003cbr\u003econtroversial horror film adaptation starring celebrity actor and lesbian it\u003cbr\u003egirl Harper Harper playing the ill-fated heroine Flo, opposite B-list actress\u003cbr\u003eand former child star Audrey Wells as Clara. But as Brookhants opens its gates\u003cbr\u003eonce again, and our three modern heroines arrive on set to begin filming, past\u003cbr\u003eand present become grimly entangled--or perhaps just grimly exploited--and soon\u003cbr\u003eit's impossible to tell where the curse leaves off and Hollywood begins. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA story within a story within a story and featuring\u003cbr\u003eblack-and-white period-inspired illustrations, \u003cem\u003ePlain Bad Heroines\u003c\/em\u003e is a\u003cbr\u003edevilishly haunting, modern masterwork of metafiction that manages to combine\u003cbr\u003ethe ghostly sensibility of Sarah Waters with the dark imagination of Marisha\u003cbr\u003ePessl and the sharp humor and incisive social commentary of Curtis Sittenfeld\u003cbr\u003einto one laugh-out-loud funny, spellbinding, and wonderfully luxuriant read.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Phoenix Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46610402574505,"sku":"PHBK-9780062942869","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0578\/9899\/1785\/files\/content_a01052f8-9744-4927-8992-d78e68570fbf.jpg?v=1764851728","url":"https:\/\/myti.com\/products\/plain-bad-heroines","provider":"Myti","version":"1.0","type":"link"}