Sorority
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Sorority

  1. 294 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

Sorority

About this book

Sisterhood is forever…whether you like it or not.

Prep meets Girls in White Dresses in Genevieve Sly Crane’s addictive literary novel about sorority life, female friendship, and coming of age on a college campus—a voyeuristic look inside the secrets, rivalries, and loyalties that shape life in a sorority house.

Twinsets and pearls, secrets and kinship, rituals that bind sisters together in a sacred promise of loyalty. Certain polished images come to mind when people think of sororities. But behind the doors of this house, the reality of Greek life is far more complicated.

In this sharp and unflinching portrait of college sisterhood, Genevieve Sly Crane reveals the hidden tensions, power dynamics, and emotional struggles simmering beneath the surface of sorority life. These women are not simply sharing late-night confidences—they are navigating jealousy, ambition, family expectations, and self-destructive choices that threaten to fracture their carefully constructed world.

At the center of the story is Margot, the sorority sister whose death casts a shadow over the entire house. Each chapter unfolds through the voices of the women who surrounded her, revealing their grief, guilt, secrets, and shifting loyalties as they grapple with what happened.

With elegant, observant prose and a keen eye for character, Crane explores the fragile bonds of female friendship and the pressures facing young women in a culture obsessed with perfection. Beneath the glittering surface of college life lie deeper questions about identity, belonging, and the price of acceptance. Woven throughout the novel are subtle echoes of classical mythology, reminding us that power, rivalry, and destruction have always shaped the lives of women—even among the modern sisterhood of Greek life.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Dedication
  3. Pledge Classes
  4. Chapter 1: Sisterhood
  5. Chapter 2: Thirst
  6. Chapter 3: Spectral Evidence
  7. Chapter 4: When You’re Naked and You Have To
  8. Chapter 5: Tend to My Fire and I Will Tend to Your Own
  9. Chapter 6: Hush
  10. Chapter 7: Children of Saturn
  11. Chapter 8: Wild Things Sorry for Themselves
  12. Chapter 9: The Short Game
  13. Chapter 10: A Founder’s Account
  14. Chapter 11: The Ferrywoman
  15. Chapter 12: Endings, Bright and Ugly
  16. Chapter 13: The Deposition
  17. Chapter 14: Autopsy Report
  18. Chapter 15: Fisher Cat
  19. Chapter 16: Lovable Persons
  20. Chapter 17: Scylla
  21. Chapter 18: Louder, Dirtier, More Fun
  22. Chapter 19: The Putting Green
  23. Chapter 20: Occlusion
  24. Chapter 21: Margot at Coda
  25. Chapter 22: Group
  26. Chapter 23: Say Yes
  27. Chapter 24: Ouija
  28. Chapter 25: The Chapter Room
  29. Acknowledgments
  30. Readers Group Guide
  31. About the Author
  32. Copyright

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Information

Publisher
Gallery/Scout Press
Year
2018
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literature General
eBook ISBN
9781501187490
Index
Literature

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