The Basic Eight

Description

Flannery Culp wants you to know the whole story of her spectacularly awful senior year. Tyrants, perverts, tragic crushes, gossip, cruel jokes, and the hallucinatory effects of absinthe -- Flannery and the seven other friends in the Basic Eight have suffered through it all. But now, on tabloid television, they're calling Flannery a murderer, which is a total lie. It's true that high school can be so stressful sometimes. And it's true that sometimes a girl just has to kill someone. But Flannery wants you to know that she's not a murderer at all -- she's a murderess.

First Sentence

One of the reasons the teenage years are so agonizing that in most societies, particularly ours, the adolescent is emotionally neither fish nor fowl.

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Other Editions

• The Basic EightElectronic resourceHarperCollins2007-01-01
• The basic eightThomas Dunne Books1999-01-01
• The basic eightAllison & Busby2000-01-01
• The Basic EightHarper Perennial2006-05-09
• The Basic EightPaperbackHarper Perennial2006-05-09