Double Teenage
Double Teenage by Joni Murphy, published by BookThug in 2016, is a literary work that explores the lives of Celine and Julie, two girls navigating their coming-of-age journey in a desert town near the US-Mexico border during the 1990s. The novel begins with their shared passion for theatre and expands into a broader exploration of the intellectual and artistic possibilities that their environment offers, while also confronting the threats that accompany their experiences.
Readers will find a narrative that delves into the complexities of Western culture, addressing themes such as friendship and the challenges of girlhood. Through the lens of Celine and Julie’s lives, the book examines the media’s fixation on sexual violence and the societal reluctance to confront genuine pain. As the characters traverse various settings—from a dance club in El Paso to an art lecture in Vancouver—they encounter contradictions and hidden brutality, ultimately presenting a portrait of resilience amidst self-destructive realities. This edition comprises 197 pages and is written in English.
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A Globe and Mail Best Book of 2016
Double Teenage tells the story of Celine and Julie, two girls coming of age in the 1990s in a desert town close to the US-Mexico border. Starting from their shared love of theatre, the girls move into a wider world that shimmers with intellectual and artistic possibility, but at the same time, is dense with threat.
This unrelenting novel shines a spotlight on paradoxes of Western culture. It asks impossible questions about the media’s obsession with sexual violence as it twins with a social unwillingness to look at real pain. It asks what it feels like to be a girl, simultaneously a being and a thing, feeling in a marketplace. Wherever they are–whether in a dance club in El Paso or an art lecture in Vancouver–these characters brush against maddening contradiction and concealed brutality.
This is a portrait of the recent past, seen through the cloudy lens of now. Murphy traces the lives of friends struggling within self-destructive realities. Part bildungsroman, part performance, part passionate essay, part magic spell, Double Teenage ultimately offers a way to see through violence into an emotionally alive place beyond the myriad traps of girlhood.
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