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Skid Dogs
- Author
- Emelia Symington-Fedy
- Narrator
- Emelia Symington-Fedy
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish Date
- 28 November 2023
- Run Time
- 9 hours 39 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Emelia 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.
Two decades later an eighteen-year-old girl is murdered on Halloween on the same tracks, and Symington-Fedy returns to her hometown to stay with her mother, who is fearful of a murderer at large.
While 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.
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Details
- Author
- Emelia Symington-Fedy
- Narrator
- Emelia Symington-Fedy
- Duration
- 9 hours 39 minutes
- Release Date
- 28 November 2023
- ISBN
- 9798350853889
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Genre
- Memoirs, Biography: general, Gender studies: women and girls, True crime, Sexual abuse and harassment, True crime: serial killers and murderers
Synopsis
A raw and riveting coming-of-age story about the wild love of teenage friendships and the casual oppression of nineties rape culture.Emelia 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.Two decades later an eighteen-year-old girl is murdered on Halloween on the same tracks, and Symington-Fedy returns to her hometown to stay with her mother, who is fearful of a murderer at large.While 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.
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