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Leach, Samantha, author.
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Teenage girls -- Institutional care.
Suburban teenagers.
At-risk youth.
Youth -- Services for.
Therapeutic schools.
Drug addiction.
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The Elissas : three ...
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The Elissas : three girls, one fate, and the deadly secrets of Suburbia / Samantha Leach.
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Leach, Samantha, author.
New York : Legacy Lit, [2023]
Subjects
Teenage girls -- Institutional care.
Suburban teenagers.
At-risk youth.
Youth -- Services for.
Therapeutic schools.
Drug addiction.
ISBN:
9780306826917 (hardcover) :
0306826917 (hardcover) :
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x, 244 pages ; 24 cm
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First edition.
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"Bustle editor Samantha Leach and her childhood best friend, Elissa, met as infants in the suburbs of Providence, Rhode Island, where they attended nursery, elementary school, and temple together. As seventh graders, they would steal drinks from bar mitzvahs and have boys over in Samantha's basement--innocent, early acts of rebellion. But after one of their shared acts, Samantha was given a disciplinary warning by their private school while Elissa was dismissed altogether, and later sent away. Samantha did not know then, but Elissa had just become one of the fifty-thousand-plus kids per year who enter the Troubled Teen Industry: a network of unregulated programs meant to reform wealthy, wayward youth. Less than a year after graduation from Ponca Pines Academy, Elissa died at eighteen years old. In Samantha's grief, she fixated on Elissa's last years at the therapeutic boarding school, eager to understand why their paths diverged. As she spoke to mutual friends and scoured social media pages, Samantha learned of Alyssa and Alissa, Elissa's closest friends at the school who shared both her name and penchant for partying, where drugs and alcohol became their norm. The matching Save Our Souls tattoo all three girls also had further fueled Samantha's fixation, as she watched their lives play out online. Four years after Elissa's death, Alyssa died, then Alissa at twenty-six. In The Elissas, Samantha endeavors to understand why they ultimately met a shared, tragic fate that she was spared, in turn, offering a chilling account of the secret lives of young suburban women."-- Provided by publisher.
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Hawaii State Library
Social Science & Philosophy
362.732 Le
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362.732 Le
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Thelma Parker Memorial P/S Library
Adult Nonfiction
362.732 Le
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