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Emma Cline’s ‘The Guest’ and the Trap of the ‘Hot Sad Girl’ Book Trend

SUMMERTIME SADNESS

The buzziest novel of the summer follows a string of flippantly categorized books about chaotic young women.

Helen Holmes
Helen Holmes 

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