The Moth Diaries
by Rachel Kleinliterary work· published 2002
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"To anyone who wonders whether it is possible to survive adolescence, this is as much as I can offer of reassurance. So begins Rachel Klein's dark and disturbing first novel. Told through the pages of a sixteen-year-old girl's journal, The Moth Diaries is an unsettling and provocative portrait of obsession and fear.". "In the hothouse atmosphere of an exclusive girls' boarding school during the late sixties, the upheavals of social revolution and the war in Vietnam might as well not be happening. Nothing exists outside the girls and the school where it is all too easy to confuse fantasy and reality; friendship and lust; dreaming and wakefulness.
Adaptations (1)
The Moth Diaries was adapted into a 2011 film.
The Moth Diaries2011 · film · 82 min · dir. Mary Harron · IMDb ↗Rebecca is a young girl who, haunted by her father’s suicide, enrolls in an elite boarding school for girls. Before long, her friendship with the popular Lucy is shattered by the arrival of a dark and mysterious new student named Ernessa, whom Rebecca suspects may be responsible for the rising body count at the school.
