Publication

2013 - UWA Publishing, Crawley, Western Australia, Western Australia

Language

English

Word Count

66,250 words, Guess

Page Count

265 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139781742584959
  • ISBN-101742584950
  • Library of Congress Control Number2013433324
  • Better World Books9781742584959
  • Open LibraryOL30962116M

Classifications

  • LCCPR9619.3.K71 J87 2013

Description

Layla is only 14. As she sits in bed with a laptop, her mother Margot sleeps in the next room. But what separates them is more than just a wall. It is every mother's nightmare. Layla cruises online. She catches trains to meet strangers. And Margot never suspects. Not even when Layla brings a man into their home. Margot's caught in her own web: an evangelical church and a charismatic pastor. Pastor Bevan preaches to the faithful, reeling them in to his tangled conceits with podcasts and twitter. Meanwhile, downtown, a man opens a suitcase and tenderly places his young lover inside. This book tears into the fabric of contemporary culture. A Puberty Blues for the digital age, a Lolita with a webcam, it is what happen when young girls are forced to grow up too fast. Or never get the chance to grow up at all.

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