![]() ![]() ![]() The two girls hate each other, and Lida is caught in the middle and forced to make a choice which leads to the book’s climax. Boone is the toughest girl in camp while Gia is complicated and alluring. The book moves full-circle until Lida faces outright the life-altering consequences of her complicated friendship with two girls at the wilderness camp, Boone and Gia. In addition to revealing her childhood, Lida’s journal also reveals her experiences at Alice Marshall School, a school for troubled female teens, in the River of No Return Wilderness area in northern Idaho. She is estranged from herself and from the world around her. Lida’s years have been full of self-loathing, uncertainties, and devoid of friendship. How does a small town Idaho teen become so bitterly lonely despite her doting father? Chapter by chapter, her life line is craftily pieced together. The book is an irresistible and painful internal monologue told in Lida’s smart and witty yet cold voice.Īs the novel inches along, the reader is given replayed snippets of a chilling childhood that set the stage for self-destruction. Lida has withdrawn into herself and further and further from those around her simply to survive. The Girls Of No Return is Erin Saldin’s first novel which tells the story of the wilderness that exists within a young girl named Lida and is told through her journal. ![]()
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