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Skid Dogs is a raw and riveting debut memoir about coming of age during the casual oppression of ‘90s rape culture and the passionate tumult of teenage friendships.
“I can’t remember the last time I read a book so brave. Maybe never.” —Ani DiFranco
I fell hard for the scrappy, funny, honest, resilient young heroine of Skid Dogs, and the wise narrator who mediates her story—an essential tale of girlhood survival. —Melissa Febos, author of Girlhood, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award
“Everyone knows, a girl has to be killed before she’s taken seriously; anything less is just called growing up.”
In 1991, Emelia Symington-Fedy stumbled upon a tight-knit group of girls hanging out on the secluded railroad tracks intersecting her small rural town—and became “best friends&r