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PET, by Catherine Chidgey

Contemporary books about adolescent girls tend to fall into two categories. First, the reassuring kind, by Norma Klein or Judy Blume, in which the bad things that happen are the usual ones — puberty, parental divorce, bullying — and everything will be all right in the end. Then there’s the other kind, by writers like Shirley Jackson or Elena Ferrante. In these, the primary revelation of adolescence is the girl’s discovery of her own power