#deenie nash

[yabookers]

badass ladies: Deenie Nash - The Fever

[vanesssaives]

Favourite Books ⇨ The Fever by Megan Abbott (there’s something dangerous about the boredom of teenage girls pt.2)

To Deenie, it was one of many intersting things that adults said would kill you: Easter lillies, jellyfish, copperhead snakes with their diamond heads, tails bright as sulfur. Don’t touch, don’t taste, don’t get close. And then, last week. it had been Lise’s idea to go to the lake, to go in the water. She’d stood in it, waving at them, her tights stripped off, her legs withe as the moon.

[addyhanlon]

THE FEVER FANCAST:

Jessica Sula as Deenie Nash Mayra Goñi as Gabby Bishop Yao Ai-ning as Lise Daniels Sameena Jabeen Ahmed as Skye Osbourne

[addyhanlon]

A few years ago, long after it had been closed, Eli said he saw a girl swimming in it, coming out of the water in a bikini, laughing at her frigthtened boyfriend, seaweed snaking around her. He said she looked like a mermaid.  Deenie always pictured it like in one of those books of mythology she used to love, a girl rising from the foam gritted with pearls, mussels, the glitter of the sea.  "It looks beautiful", her mother had said once when they were driving by at night, its waters opaline. "It is beautiful. But it makes people sick" To Deenie, it was one of many interesting things that adults said would kill you: Easter lilles, jellyfish, copperhead snakes with their diamond heads, tails bright as sulfur. Don't touch, don't taste, don't get to close.   And then, last week.