The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls is a provocative and at times disturbing
novel set in the 1930's at the height of the Great Depression. It is the story
of fifteen year old Theodora Atwell who is cast out of her Florida home for her
mysterious role in a family tragedy and exiled to an equestrienne boarding
school for Southern debutantes. High in the Blue Ridge Mountains, with its strict
environmentt ordered by money, beauty, and girls’ friendships, the Yonahlossee Riding
Camp for Girls is far removed from the free-roaming, dreamlike childhood Thea
shared with her twin brother on their family’s citrus farm.
Told from the first
person narrative, Thea’s background story is slowly (painfully) unveiled throughout
the first half of the book. Most will
determine what must have happened in Thea’s past pretty quickly. This mystery is drawn out for far too long
through a narration that jumps back and forth between Thea’s memories of her
childhood and her time at Yonahlossee, leading up to the unraveling of her youth.
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