![]() We see shocking contrast to these high levels of control and suppression, that the girls gather in an abandoned building which “quickly became their anti-parent, anti-teacher, anti-nanny headquarters, a space of phantasmal sounds that felt both gloomy and romantic.” The girls – the predominant focus being the leaders of a group of five named Anneliese and Fernanda – ordinarily live in gated compounds, at school they are strictly controlled, and there are multiple other threads of the story that deal with brutally crushing pressure from mothers. The main premise of Jawbone surrounds a group of schoolgirls in Ecuador, around fifteen years old, where we see what they get up to and what they imagine when they are unleashed from the suppressive setting that they, for the most part of their lives, grow up in. But it certainly pushes boundaries and there is a huge amount to unpack, though it could probably do with quite a few trigger warnings. It is dark and gruesome but in a quietly menacing way. It’s very hard to describe Jawbone because it is essentially in its own category of fiction, and the world it creates and explores is one where young girls gather together to perform outrageous, dangerous and disgusting activities. Or alternatively, perhaps this book is like the setting of Lord of the Flies, if you chuck in some twisted Latin American horror and make all of the characters female. If Freud had a sister that was writing about the security of young girls in Ecuador, perhaps that piece might have turned out close to Jawbone.
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