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Winner, Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize (BC Book Prizes)Longlisted for the Dublin IMPAC Literary AwardA sharp and gritty novel told in multiple voices, Anatomy of a Girl Gang is the powerful story of a gang of teenage girls in Vancouver called the Black Roses, a.k.a. "the city's worst nightmare": Mac, the self-appointed leader and mastermind; Mercy, the Punjabi princess with a skill for theft; Kayos, a high-school dropout who gave birth to a daughter at age thirteen; Sly Girl, who fled her First Nations reserve for a better life, only to find depravity and addiction; and Z, a sixteen-year-old graffiti artist.Cast out by mainstream society, the Black Roses rob ATMs, cook crack on stoves, and savagely beat down anyone who dares to harm them. Brutal and broken, they claw at the knot of darkness and violence that tightens around their lives.
About the Author
Ashley Little received a BFA in Creative Writing and Film Studies from The University of Victoria and is now completing her MFA at University of British Columbia Okanagan. Her first novel, PRICK: Confessions of a Tattoo Artist (Tightrope Books, 2011) was shortlisted for a ReLit award and optioned for film. The New Normal (Orca, 2013) won the Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Award. Ashley's third novel, Anatomy of a Girl Gang (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2013) , won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and has been optioned for television. For more info check out ashleylittle.com.
