Megan Abbott is the award-winning author of nine novels, including Give Me Your Hand, You Will Know Me, The Fever, and The End of Everything. She received her PhD in literature from New York University. Abbott was a staff writer on HBO's The Deuce and co-creator of the USA Network series Dare Me.
"Arresting, original and unputdownable."--Rosamund Lupton, New York
Times bestselling author of Sister
"DARE ME sneaks up on you from behind, pulling on long-forgotten
memories of teenaged desperation, obsession, and desire. This is
truly masterful storytelling."--Alafair Burke, author of Never
Tell
"I dare you not to love this book. You lucky reader."--Tom
Franklin, New York Times bestselling author of Crooked Letter,
Crooked Letter
"In Dare Me Megan Abbott guides us into the subculture of athletic
and fierce young cheerleaders, who train together, compete, andbond
until they form a rugged unit much as Marines form a rugged unit.
She finds the nearly sinister underside of everyday events and
somehow builds great suspense from ingredients that seem so
familiar. Abbott has become expert at revealing truths we thought
we knew but didn't, delivered in prose that is by turns elegant and
incantatory."--Daniel Woodrell, author of Winter's Bone
"Megan Abbott's brilliant new book presents a number of
possibilities-the mysterious and the erotic, as well as the
inevitable and paradoxical lessons of girlhood-with such
illumination that the joyful terrors of adolescence were once again
present in me. Abbott's characters, confronted with unaccustomed
questions and strange, new difficulties, remind us that the loss of
innocence can, if we are fortunate, emerge into a lustrous
wisdom."--Susanna Moore, author of In the Cut
Abbott marries the best pleasures of the pulp tradition with the
highest ambitions of literary craft, yielding a novel that offers a
strikingly diverse spectrum of readerly pleasures: It's a gripping
murder mystery cloaked in a shrewd examination of female
friendships, draped in rah-rah Americana, then reflected in the
funhouse mirror of contemporary teenagerdom."--Adam Sternbergh,
Slate
PRAISE FOR DARE ME: "Afascinating, almost voyeuristic, glimpse into
the power struggle that goes on between teenaged girls. Not just
any teenaged girls-cheerleaders-with their own unique hierarchy and
fierce code of loyalty, which they'll protect at any cost. There's
a dark and twisted love story here, told with a rich sensual
undertone that lingers long after you close the last page, still
breathing in your ear: Dare me."--Chevy Stevens, New York Times
bestselling author of Still Missing and Never Knowing
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