Vengeance Is Golden

The popular girls tormented Cassie Slutsky until she hanged herself. Now her ghost wants revenge!The time is now. The place, the fictional seaside Virginia town of Verrazzano's Landing. Sixteen-year-old Jewish girl Cassie is uprooted from her home in the Baltimore suburbs when her parents divorce and she moves, with her mother and younger brother, to a rented house and a new high school in the middle of her sophomore year. When she stands up to the "Golden Circle" of popular white girls who are picking on their undocumented immigrant classmates, she finds herself the victim of relentless online and in-person bullying for her weight, her Jewishness, and her outsider status. So she kills herself in the novel's opening scene. (The first three chapters are attached.)Mashing its sweaty fingers down on every hot-button issue from racial tensions to eating disorders to drug abuse and cyber-fueled teen sex, Vengeance Is Golden follows Cassie's ghost as she seeks to destroy the Golden Circle, their boyfriends, and the others responsible for her death. If Cassie met Hannah Baker from Thirteen Reasons Why, she would tell her to forget about passive-aggressive tape recordings, and get even!


Genre: Horror