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Anatomy of a girl gang : a novel / Ashley Little.

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Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Branch	Status	Due Date
YF LITT	Young Adult Fiction		Adult Lending	. Available .

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Field name	Details
ISBN	9781551525297 (paperback)
Classification	YF LITT
Personal Name	Little, Ashley, 1983-
Title	Anatomy of a girl gang : a novel / Ashley Little.
Production & Copyright Details	Vancouver : Arsenal Pulp Press, [2013]
Production & Copyright Details	©2013
Physical Description	253 pages ; 22 cm.
Content type	text
Summary Note	Winner, Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize (BC Book Prizes) Longlisted for the Dublin IMPAC Literary Award. A sharp and gritty novel told in multiple voices, Anatomy of a Girl Gang is the powerful story of a gang of teenage girls in Vancouver called the Black Roses, a.k.a. "the city's worst nightmare": Mac, the self-appointed leader and mastermind; Mercy, the Punjabi princess with a skill for theft; Kayos, a high-school dropout who gave birth to a daughter at age thirteen; Sly Girl, who fled her First Nations reserve for a better life, only to find depravity and addiction; and Z, a sixteen-year-old graffiti artist. Cast out by mainstream society, the Black Roses rob ATMs, cook crack on stoves, and savagely beat down anyone who dares to harm them. Brutal and broken, they claw at the knot of darkness and violence that tightens around their lives. Told in stark, vivid, and fearless prose, Anatomy of a Girl Gang is an unflinching story about lost girls struggling for power, voice, and hope.
Subject - Topical Term	Canadian fiction -- 21st century
	Young adult fiction
	Gangs -- Juvenile fiction
	Girls -- Juvenile fiction