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For readers of My Dark Vanessa and Lullabies for Little Criminals, this important, electrifying novel about the agony and exhilaration of being a teenage girl will challenge you, unsettle you and ask you to look at your own experiences with perversions of power.
Katie is used to being let down. Her best friend abandoned her for a boy, her mom is a hypochondriac who spends most days on the couch, and the guys at school can do whatever they want while the girls are stuck following the rules.
All Katie wants is to be seen. So when she finds an online world where women aren't ashamed of what they want and consent doesn't feel like the grey area she's used to, she thinks she's finally in control. But as Katie becomes more and more enmeshed in this virtual playground, she begins to realize her newfound power may just be an illusion.
Sharp Edges is the story of a girl lost in a grown-up world far darker than she could have imagined—searching for someone to guide her to a place where she can be sixteen again.
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LEAH MOL is a writer and editor who graduated from the Creative Writing Program at UBC. Her fiction won the 2018 CBC Short Story Prize and the 2020 Bronwen Wallace Award. She lives in Toronto. Sharp Edges is her debut novel. You can follow her on Twitter and Instagram @leahmol.
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I didn't get my first period until grade nine. I thought it was supposed to be red like blood, so when there were brown stains in my underpants I was pretty sure I was dying. After a couple days of stuffing my underwear with toilet paper and waiting for the end, I did a search online and found out it was my period. I wasn't excited like I thought I would be; it felt like something else. Disappointment, maybe, that something so scary had suddenly become normal, something other people dealt with all the time. Everyone knew more than I did. I just felt stupid. I went home after school on the third day and told Mom about it, but I pretended it'd just happened, that I'd known all along what it was supposed to be like. She told me periods change everything, that I had to be more careful, that I could get pregnant now.
At the end of the week, there was a bag sitting on my bed. Inside it was a ring in a small box and a card that said Congratulations, Love Mom. I wonder if her own mom gave her jewellery after her first time, or if she looked it up on the internet—first period gifts. The ring has a real gold band and my birthstone. The box it came in is plain blue, and it's soft like animal fur. That's where I keep my razorblades now.
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