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An electric debut novel about love, craving, and loss; the story of two females and the feral 12 months that will cost one her life and establish the other's for many years. Everything about 15-year-old Cat's new town in rural Michigan is depressed and off-kilter until she complies with her neighbor, the manic, beautiful, pill-popping Marlena. Feline, inexperienced and in need of connection, is quickly lured into Marlena's orbit by bit more than an arched eyebrow and a shake of white-blond scalp. As both girls turn the untamed surroundings of their desolate small town into some sort of playground, Feline catalogues a litany of firsts - first drink, first cigarette, first kiss - while Marlena's patterns harden and calcify. Within the entire year Marlena is deceased, drowned in six inches wide of icy water in the woods nearby. Now, ages later, when a ghost from that pivotal 12 months surfaces unexpectedly, Feline must try to forgive herself and go forward, even as the memory space of Marlena helps to keep her tangled in the past. Alive with an immediate, unshakable tenderness, Julie Buntin's Marlena is an unforgettable go through the people who condition us beyond reason and the ways it might be possible to pull oneself back again from the brink.
