This was DiSclafani’s debut novel, based on family secrets and girls’-school rituals, set in the 1930s South in the midst of the Great Depression. I found it totally fascinating. After her mysterious role in a family tragedy, passionate, strong-willed Thea Atwell, age fifteen, has been cast out of her Florida home, exiled to an equestrienne boarding school for Southern debutantes. High in the Blue Ridge Mountains, with its complex social strata ordered by money, beauty, and girls’ friendships, the Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls is a far cry from the free-roaming childhood Thea shared with her twin brother on their family’s citrus farm—a world now partially shattered. Weaving between home and school, you come to understand the true story behind Thea’s expulsion from her family and how it will shape her future.
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