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Johnston, E. K.

Pretty Furious

224 pp. | Dutton | April, 2024 | Trade ISBN 9781984816139 $18.99 | Ebook ISBN 9781984816146 $10.99
(4) YA In their small Ontario farming town, five best friends are known as “good girls,” the rule followers and peacekeepers. But when a classmate has an abortion and the parents of the boy who got her pregnant erect a pro-life billboard on their property, the friends are incensed. As their senior year unfolds, each girl makes a birthday wish to undertake a subversive action taking aim at the patriarchy, and the group vows to help pull it off. While the premise is intriguing, the acts themselves are mostly low stakes and don’t feel as consequential as the characters make them out to be. The girls’ voices are indistinguishable in each first-person chapter; family histories and town gossip slow the plot. What is palpable is the rage these girls feel at being underestimated, undervalued, and written off.
Reviewer: Jennifer Hubert Swan

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