Foxfire

New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates’s strongest and most unsparing novel yet—an always engrossing often shocking evocation of female rage gallantry and grit. . The time is the 1950s. The place is a blue-collar town in upstate New York where five high school girls join a gang dedicated to pride power and vengeance on a world that seems made to denigrate and destroy them. . Here is the secret history of a sisterhood of blood a haven from a world of male oppressors marked by a liberating fury that burns too hot to last. Above all it is the story of Legs Sadovsky with her lean on-the-edge icy beauty whose nerve muscle hate and hurt make her the spark of Foxfire: its guiding spirit its burning core. . At once brutal and lyrical this is a careening joyride of a novel—charged with outlaw energy and lit by intense emotion. Amid scenes of violence and vengeance lies this novel’s greatest power: the exquisite astonishing rendering of the bonds that link the Foxfire girls together. Foxfire reaffirms Joyce Carol Oates’s place at the very summit of American writing.