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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 Samanthaās basementāinnocent, 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.Ā
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Less than a year after graduation from Ponca Pines Academy, Elissa died at eighteen years old. In Samanthaās grief, she fixated on Elissaās 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, Elissaās closest friends at the school who sharedĀ both her name and penchantĀ for partying, where drugs and alcohol became their norm.Ā The matching Save Our Souls tattoo all three girls alsoĀ hadĀ further fueled Samanthaās fixation, as she watched their lives play out online. Four years after Elissaās death, Alyssa died, then Alissa at twenty-six.Ā
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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.
This book title, The Elissas (Three Girls, One Fate, and the Deadly Secrets of Suburbia), ISBN: 9780306826917, by Samantha Leach, published by Grand Central Publishing (June 6, 2023) is available in hardcover. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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