Dizz Tate’s Novel Brutes Captures Sticky, Sweaty Girlhood In Florida

When you’re 13 years old, it behooves you to think in “we,” terms. There is something communal about your suffering and your obsessions; it is safer if you all hate the same person, or wear the same color of nail polish. Dizz Tate captures the sticky, grabby feeling of puberty in her addictive, haunting debut novel Brutes, which was inspired by her obsession with Florida, mid-aughts teen stardom, and puberty. The novel is told from the perspective of a group of 13-year-old girls who speak like a Greek chorus, mimicking the brutal, obsessive, naive groupthink of being a teenager, when… Read Full Article