02336cam a2200349 i 4500 340413606 TxAuBib 20180223120000.0 160621s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2016021949 9781627797641 26.00 1627797645 26.00 eng rda TxAuBib rda Buntin, Julie. Marlena [BOOK] : a novel / Julie Buntin. First edition. New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2017. 274 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "An electric debut novel about love, addiction, and loss; the story of two girls and the feral year that will cost one her life, and define the other's for decades. Everything about fifteen-year-old Cat's new town in rural Michigan is lonely and off-kilter, until she meets her neighbor, the manic, beautiful, pill-popping Marlena. Cat, inexperienced and desperate for connection, is quickly lured into Marlena's orbit by little more than an arched eyebrow and a shake of white-blond hair. As the two girls turn the untamed landscape of their desolate small town into a kind of playground, Cat catalogues a litany of firsts -- first drink, first cigarette, first kiss -- while Marlena's habits harden and calcify. Within the year, Marlena is dead, drowned in six inches of icy water in the woods nearby. Now, decades later, when a ghost from that pivotal year surfaces unexpectedly, Cat must try to forgive herself and move on, even as the memory of Marlena keeps her tangled in the past. Alive with an urgent, unshakable tenderness, Julie Buntin's Marlena is an unforgettable look at the people who shape us beyond reason and the ways it might be possible to pull oneself back from the brink. "-- Provided by publisher. 970L Lexile. 20180223. Female friendship Fiction. Influence (Psychology) Fiction. Self-actualization (Psychology) in women Fiction. Teenage girls Drug use Fiction. Teenage girls Death Fiction. Michigan Fiction. Psychological fiction.