{"product_id":"skid-dogs","title":"Skid Dogs","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cem\u003eSkid Dogs\u003c\/em\u003e is a raw and riveting debut memoir about coming of age during the casual oppression of '90s rape culture and the passionate tumult of teenage friendships.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eI can't remember the last time I read a book so brave. Maybe never.\" --Ani DiFranco\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"I fell hard for the scrappy, funny, honest, resilient young heroine of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSkid Dogs\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e, and the wise narrator who mediates her story--an essential tale of girlhood survival.\" --Melissa Febos, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGirlhood\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Everyone knows, a girl has to be killed before she's taken seriously; anything less is just called growing up.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn 1991, Emelia Symington-Fedy stumbled upon a tight-knit group of girls hanging out on the secluded railroad tracks intersecting her small rural town--and became \"best friends\" with them overnight in the way only fifteen-year-olds can. Unsupervised and wild, the girls navigated teenage friendship dynamics, toyed with adult vices, and explored their growing sexuality.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTwo decades later an eighteen-year-old girl is murdered on Halloween on the same tracks, and Symington-Fedy returns to her hometown to stay with her mother, who is fearful of a murderer at large. The victim was simply taking a shortcut to her friend's house--just like Emelia's gang had done so many times in their day. While the media fixates on why the girl dared to be alone on the tracks, Symington-Fedy slowly comes to terms with the mistreatment of her own teenage body and the twenty years of silence between her former friends. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCombining the intimacy of memoir with the gripping narrative of true crime, Symington-Fedy offers a bold and often darkly humorous first-hand account of nineties rape culture, the sexual coercion that still permeates girlhood, and the subtle ways that misogyny shows up daily.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Douglas \u0026 McIntyre","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51937043284199,"sku":"9781771623643","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0449\/4075\/5096\/files\/imageloader_685c97ce-8cbc-4921-894f-26838ece3c10.jpg?v=1774996952","url":"https:\/\/arvidabookco.com\/products\/skid-dogs","provider":"Arvida Book Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}