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Leach, Samantha.
Subjects
Opioid abuse.
At-risk youth.
Drug addiction.
Suburban teenagers.
Teenage girls -- Institutional care.
Teenagers -- Drug use.
Youth -- Services for.
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Leach, Samantha.
Opioid abuse.
At-risk youth.
Drug addiction.
Suburban teenagers.
Teenage girls -- Institutional care.
Teenagers -- Drug use.
Youth -- Services for.
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The
Elissas
:
three
girls
,
one
fate
, and the
deadly
secrets
of
suburbia
/ Samantha Leach.
by
Leach, Samantha.
Legacy Lit, 2023.
Call #:
362.732 L434e
Subjects
Opioid abuse.
At-risk youth.
Drug addiction.
Suburban teenagers.
Teenage
girls
-- Institutional care.
Teenagers -- Drug use.
Youth -- Services for.
ISBN:
9780306826917 (hc)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
x, 244 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-244).
Summary:
"
Three
suburban
girls
meet at a boarding school for troubled teens. Eight years later, they were dead. Bustle editor Samantha Leach and her childhood best friend, Elissa, met as infants in the suburbs of Providence, Rhode Island, where they attended nursery, elementary school, and temple together. As seventh graders, they would steal drinks from bar mitzvahs and have boys over in Samantha’s basement -- innocent, early acts of rebellion. But after
one
of their shared acts, Samantha was given a disciplinary warning by their private school while Elissa was dismissed altogether, and later sent away. Samantha did not know then, but Elissa had just become
one
of the fifty-thousand-plus kids per year who enter the Troubled Teen Industry: a network of unregulated programs meant to reform wealthy, wayward youth. Less than a year after graduation from Ponca Pines Academy, Elissa died at eighteen years old. In Samantha’s grief, she fixated on Elissa’s last years at the therapeutic boarding school, eager to understand why their paths diverged. As she spoke to mutual friends and scoured social media pages, Samantha learned of Alyssa and Alissa, Elissa’s closest friends at the school who shared both her name and penchant for partying, where drugs and alcohol became their norm. The matching Save Our Souls tattoo all
three
girls
also had further fueled Samantha’s fixation, as she watched their lives play out online. Four years after Elissa’s death, Alyssa died, then Alissa at twenty-six. In The
Elissas
, Samantha endeavors to understand why they ultimately met a shared, tragic
fate
that she was spared, in turn, offering a chilling account of the secret lives of young suburban women."--Publisher.
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