REVIEW – A fantastic portrait of a group of girls confronted with the uncertainties and anxieties of adolescence. Bright.
“We are thirteen, almost fourteen, and the streets of Sea Cliff belong to us.” No misunderstanding: this is not a gang story! We are in San Francisco in the mid-1980s.We» in question, it is the one used by the narrator, Eulabee, to evoke the group she forms with her friends Maria Fabiola, Julia and Faith. Maria Fabiola, the beauty of the group, is the leader. They walk to their girls’ college every day. They pride themselves on knowing their neighborhood near the Golden Gate by heart, the addresses of parents, teachers, and above all, boys, a major concern: “We long for boys to watch us. We are burning with desire to burn with desire. We burn to love (…) We feel this impulse that pulses in our bodies, without knowing how to name it – no question of calling it desire – nor how to express it, whether to others or to ourselves.”
Adolescence, a complex, tormented period, is conducive to all kinds…
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