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Marysue Rucci

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Bright Young Women

Jessica Knoll’s Bright Young Women is a primal scream for women past and present.

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Review of ‘Bright Young Women’

Everyone knows the term “serial killer” in today’s true crime-obsessed landscape. But Jessica Knoll’s Bright Young Women takes the reader back to a time before constant content about murders and those who pathologically commit them, though to say life was better then would be a vast oversimplification. Moving between past and present,…

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