{"product_id":"9781771623650","title":"Skid Dogs","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA raw and riveting coming-of-age story about the wild love of teenage friendships and the casual oppression of 90s rape culture\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEmelia Symington-Fedy grew up with her girl gang on the railroad tracks of a small town in British Columbia. Unsupervised and wild, the girls explored the power and shortcomings of “best” friendships and their growing sexuality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo decades later an eighteen-year-old girl is murdered on Halloween on the same tracks, and Emelia returns to her hometown to stay with her mother, who is fearful of a murderer at large.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile the media narrows its focus on how the girl dared be alone on the tracks, Symington-Fedy slowly comes to terms with the mistreatment of her own teenage body. Giving a bold and often darkly humorous first-hand account of nineties rape culture and the sexual coercion that still permeates girlhood, Symington-Fedy holds her hometown close and accountable and exposes the subtle ways that misogyny shows up daily. Award-winning poet and author Aislinn Hunter describes \u003cem\u003eSkid Dogs\u003c\/em\u003e as a “riveting, raucous and tender look at growing up a girl in a boy’s world. […] Beautifully written and bravely told, this book is the \u003cem\u003eStand By Me\u003c\/em\u003e for girls that’s been far too long in coming.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Douglas \u0026 McIntyre Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46434994389233,"sku":"9781771623650","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/9781771623650_p0.jpg?v=1765529687","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781771623650","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}