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Brutes: A Novel Hardcover – February 7, 2023

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The Virgin Suicides meets The Florida Project in this wildly original debut—a coming-of-age story about the crucible of girlhood, from a writer of rare and startling talent

We would not be born out of sweetness, we were born out of rage, we felt it in our bones.

In Falls Landing, Florida—a place built of theme parks, swampy lakes, and scorched bougainvillea flowers—something sinister lurks in the deep. A gang of thirteen-year-old girls obsessively orbit around the local preacher's daughter, Sammy. She is mesmerizing, older, and in love with Eddie. But suddenly, Sammy goes missing. Where is she? Watching from a distance, they edge ever closer to discovering a dark secret about their fame-hungry town and the cruel cost of a ticket out. What they see will continue to haunt them for the rest of their lives.

Through a darkly beautiful and brutally compelling lens, Dizz Tate captures the violence, horrors, and manic joys of girlhood. Brutes is a novel about the seemingly unbreakable bonds in the "we" of young friendship, and the moment it is broken forever.
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  6. ISBN-10
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“Elegant . . . Tate’s work takes a sanctioned vision of suburbia and transforms it . . . The mystery is waylaid in favor of something more arresting, more sinister, more enthralling. By the end, Brutes feels wonderfully untethered, wild and unpredictable. The novel is an exploration of adolescent trauma and its otherworldly manifestations rather than a retelling of a trope.” —Danya Kukafka, The New York Times Book Review

"An original and stylistically ambitious take on the well-trodden subject matter of girls in peril . . . Tate perfectly captures the simultaneous impatience and mercurial swings of girlhood." —Kristen Martin, NPR

"This season’s most-anticipated first outing." —Vogue

"With easily one of the most cinematic covers of the year’s new release slate, Dizz Tate’s Brutes is marketed as The Virgin Suicides meets The Florida Project. That’s an apt comparison, considering the violent, dangerous pleasures lurking in this coming-of-age story, which follows a group of young girls who flock around the radiant local televangelist’s daughter—until she one day disappears. This is a riveting tale, one that refuses to sacrifice nuance nor insight for the sake of its propulsive narrative." —Elle, A Most Anticipated Title of the Year

"Spellbinding . . . Brutes is astonishing, unnerving, cinematic, and slyly hideous." —Patrick Rapa, The Philadelphia Inqurer

[A] magic realist, warped Florid a fairy tale, a Lynchian reinterpretation of The Virgin Suicides . . . Tate acutely captures the precariousness of girlhood, its growing pains and what it is to be “born out of rage.”' —The Observer [UK]

"An astonishing debut that will burrow under your skin." —The Sunday Times (London)

"[A] much-heralded debut . . . Brutes contains many high-calibre ingredients, not least Tate’s linguistic flair and acute visual sense." —Madeleine Feeny, The Guardian

“Narrated by an intense voice—the crowded 'we'—Brutes uses an imagistic, unnerving language to tell the story of these girls and their young, 'hatching hearts.'” —Bustle, A Most Anticipated Book of the Year

"Dizz Tate captures the sticky, grabby feeling of puberty in her addictive, haunting debut novel." —Sophia June, Nylon

"Florida is a place of extremes—extreme heat, extreme weather, extreme people. It’s hard to put into words what growing up there is like, but with her debut novel, Dizz Tate combines the intensity of the state with the dramatic, emotional turbulence of young adulthood . . . A portrait of a state unlike any other—a car crash that’s impossible to look away from." —Sam Franzini, Our Culture

"Told from a perspective reminiscent of The Virgins Suicides and the unflinching style of The Florida Project, Dizz Tate immediately makes her mark with her debut novel Brutes." —Chicago Review of Books

"A surreal and ambitious debut novel . . . Brutes’s adolescent cast, time-jumping narrative, and promise of violence evoke the hit show Yellowjackets." —The Millions, A Most Anticipated Read

"Dark and beautiful instantly come to mind when thinking about how to describe the teenage girl friendship in this book. Dark and beautiful also describes Tate’s writing. It explores coming-of-age in such new and unique ways. Brutes will mesmerize you and catch you off guard with how accurate yet unpredictable it is." —Debutiful

"Through a darkly beautiful and brutally compelling lens, Dizz Tate captures the violence, horrors, and manic joys of girlhood. Brutes is a novel about the seemingly unbreakable bonds in the 'we' of young friendship, and the moment it is broken forever." —Kailey Brennan Dellorusso, Write or Die Magazine

"Brutes offers stark and unlovely characterizations, but with moments of striking beauty. The girls (and their mothers) are grasping, even desperate, but capable of compassion. Tate's Florida is steamy and thickly rank, with blinding sunlight and shadowy depths . . . This is a dark coming-of-age tale and meditation on childhood and the cusp of adolescence: authentic . . . with glimmers of hope." —Shelf Awareness

"Mesmerizing moments . . . An often beautiful work." —Publishers Weekly

"Tate's debut novel is for readers looking for a riveting plot only topped by its captivating voices, at times honest and vulnerable, at others chilling in their detachment, Tate’s prose enhances the conspiratorial relationship of these characters bonded by fickle friendship pacts, violence, and love. Simultaneously disturbing and sentimental, Brutes is a true reflection of girlhood." —Booklist

"Dreamlike . . . Tate’s novel feels a bit like avant-garde fashion: surreal, impractical, but beautiful to see. A promising first book whose enigmatic nature is . . . alluring." —Kirkus Reviews

"Innovative, urgent, and endlessly lush, Brutes is the rapturous story of darkly shifting allegiances among a group of obsessive teenage girls. A masterful sentence maker, Tate is a startling and singular new voice, and her debut novel is so taut and intense it might just catch fire." —Kimberly King Parsons, author of Black Light

"The mystery and the danger of being a girl, of feeling crazy and vulnerable and wild, wanting to run away and be someone—anyone—is captured here across a landscape of nail polish and fire and sex, a sinister lake and the pink sky of Florida. Brutes is a beautiful and deeply strange novel, full of dread and longing. I loved it." —Mariana Enríquez, author of Our Share of the Night and Things We Lost in the Fire

About the Author

DIZZ TATE grew up in Florida and lives in London, U.K. She has had short stories published in Granta, The Stinging Fly, Dazed, No Tokens Journal, Five Dials, 3:AM Magazine, among other publications. She was long-listed for the Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award in 2020 and won the Bristol Short Story Prize in 2019. Brutes is her first novel.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Catapult (February 7, 2023)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 304 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1646221672
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1646221677
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.04 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.84 x 1 x 8.62 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.2 3.2 out of 5 stars 312 ratings

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Gorgeous, weird, lovely book
This book made me feel clammy. Is that even a thing? Tate's imagery had me feeling like I was in the weird, cold, early Spring dampness of Florida. Like, I could practically smell the lush rot.I know the description of the book itself compares it to The Virgin Suicides and it's just so spot on that I can't help but to make the same exact comparison. Although I will say, Tate writes Florida the way that Chelsea Bieker captures California in Godshot - perfectly.The oddly captivating preacher's daughter, Sammy has gone missing and you get the feeling that something creepy has gone down. Their town of Falls Landing, Florida is also obsessed with getting their kids on a local Star Search-esque competition at any cost.The point of view switches back and forth between the different girls in the story and I must admit, I never knew exactly which character was who. But it didn't matter in the least. Tate captured the awfulness and gorgeousness of girlhood so well that it was almost disorienting. Like, am I in my thirties or am I thirteen again?There's angst and glamour and decay and beauty and it's an actual VIBE. I loved it.
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Kelly J. Pramberger
3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting Book
Reviewed in the United States on February 12, 2023
This was an odd but interesting book for me. I liked the style that it was written in and it flowed well. The characters were young and brutal to each other and that’s where I found it to be difficult to get into. I am giving it three stars.
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courtnie
4.0 out of 5 stars weird little girls doing weird little girl stuff
Reviewed in the United States on January 17, 2024
3.5 rounded up to 4 stars. This book made how I felt at 13 years old seems normal. The way the friend group sees their mothers and how they grew up to see themselves was very interesting and relevant.

The writing style from Tate makes the mundane and ordinary come across beautiful and cinematic.
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lololovesfilms
2.0 out of 5 stars A boring, insanely disjointed whirlwind of screwed up and a cacophony of toxicity
Reviewed in the United States on March 20, 2023
2 stars.

I was a teenager once. I get it, we all want to be like everyone else. We all want to be famous, to leave our terrible towns and become something greater than we are, to get rich quickly, to escape the sins of our fathers and the obsessions and gossiping of our mothers...but haven't we read books like "Brutes" before? Ones with much more success? It feels like Dizz Tate wrote so, so many words for a story that says so very little. The plot is basically nonsensical and insanely disjointed, especially with unreliable narrators and a past-versus-present-timeline going on. The story is frenetic and frenzied, a whirlwind of screwed up and a cacophony of toxicity. It's ominous, sure, but to what end? I have no idea what this book was about! It left me more annoyed and bored than anything. It didn't make me think, reflect, or get angry... I just felt apathetic and glad to be done with the book. It did nothing for me. It's even worse via audiobook because the narrator barely attempts to change her voice to distinguish between characters (and there are MANY characters). After reading "Brutes," I feel like we should, collectively, as a society, write a law about how many similies is an acceptable amount of similies to have in one book because there are similies every. single. freaking. sentence. here. It got annoying after a while, like, do something new! Pick any other literary device and try that on for size! It's a no from me.
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Kerri Schlottman
5.0 out of 5 stars A stunning novel about trauma
Reviewed in the United States on April 12, 2024
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This novel left me in awe - of how Dizz Tate was able to pull of her storytelling from a craft perspective and also how effectively she used metaphor to discuss trauma. On a sentence level, the novel is brimming with gorgeous writing. The characters are absolutely effective. With the combination of collective first person that then breaks out into first person singular, she has created a wholly unique structure that kept me turning the pages, eager to uncover what was happening to this group of young friends. This book is a truly remarkable achievement! It is not for people who like easy or light reading. This is a work of literature that asks readers to spend some time with it, and I promise if you do, you will be so glad you did.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Disappointed
Reviewed in the United States on February 15, 2023
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Eh. Not that I expected and not that great. Choppy and hard to follow. Ending was disappointing. Plot and characters were poorly developed
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Ann Marie Norrid
4.0 out of 5 stars Gorgeous, weird, lovely book
Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2023
This book made me feel clammy. Is that even a thing? Tate's imagery had me feeling like I was in the weird, cold, early Spring dampness of Florida. Like, I could practically smell the lush rot.

I know the description of the book itself compares it to The Virgin Suicides and it's just so spot on that I can't help but to make the same exact comparison. Although I will say, Tate writes Florida the way that Chelsea Bieker captures California in Godshot - perfectly.

The oddly captivating preacher's daughter, Sammy has gone missing and you get the feeling that something creepy has gone down. Their town of Falls Landing, Florida is also obsessed with getting their kids on a local Star Search-esque competition at any cost.

The point of view switches back and forth between the different girls in the story and I must admit, I never knew exactly which character was who. But it didn't matter in the least. Tate captured the awfulness and gorgeousness of girlhood so well that it was almost disorienting. Like, am I in my thirties or am I thirteen again?

There's angst and glamour and decay and beauty and it's an actual VIBE. I loved it.
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Ann Marie Norrid
4.0 out of 5 stars Gorgeous, weird, lovely book
Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2023
This book made me feel clammy. Is that even a thing? Tate's imagery had me feeling like I was in the weird, cold, early Spring dampness of Florida. Like, I could practically smell the lush rot.

I know the description of the book itself compares it to The Virgin Suicides and it's just so spot on that I can't help but to make the same exact comparison. Although I will say, Tate writes Florida the way that Chelsea Bieker captures California in Godshot - perfectly.

The oddly captivating preacher's daughter, Sammy has gone missing and you get the feeling that something creepy has gone down. Their town of Falls Landing, Florida is also obsessed with getting their kids on a local Star Search-esque competition at any cost.

The point of view switches back and forth between the different girls in the story and I must admit, I never knew exactly which character was who. But it didn't matter in the least. Tate captured the awfulness and gorgeousness of girlhood so well that it was almost disorienting. Like, am I in my thirties or am I thirteen again?

There's angst and glamour and decay and beauty and it's an actual VIBE. I loved it.
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2.0 out of 5 stars meh
Reviewed in the United States on June 10, 2023
I felt like this was really trying to be a southern gothic but didn’t feel suspenseful to me; I also felt that all the main characters blended together and it was hard to distinguish who was who and what their motivations were
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Shaun
5.0 out of 5 stars What happened
Reviewed in the United States on September 16, 2023
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Wierd and quirky book. Absolutely loved it did drag in some parts but overall kept me interested. Felt as if u was transported to falls landing Florida.
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Helen
3.0 out of 5 stars Confusing
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 16, 2023
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Disclaimer that there is very little plot here and much of what there is is very heavy in allegory so if that’s not your thing, maybe give it a miss
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Astrid
4.0 out of 5 stars Mostly a great read (bad ending)
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 12, 2023
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The writing is vivid & evocative. I love how the narrative moves between the collective voice ('we') and individual voices; kind of like in The Water Cure. This makes up for the slow pace and the fact that not much really happens. I also really like that the central ambiguity - what's real and what's imagined - is maintained for most of the book. It's such a shame that that ambiguity gets resolved in the last few pages. The ending feels rushed and forced; the author was clearly in a rush to tie up loose ends & resolve things as this was done in a way that felt very deliberate & on the nose.
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Mrs Katie Louise Wright
2.0 out of 5 stars Hard to follow
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 3, 2024
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I had to really persevere to actually finish this book. It was a relief when it was finally over, I really wanted to enjoy it, but I just couldn’t get into it. I still don’t really know what it was about.
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Chloe Johnson
5.0 out of 5 stars Great, thankyou!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 10, 2024
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Arrived in condition stated. Cannot wait to read this.
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Aurora
3.0 out of 5 stars okay book with beautiful language
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 29, 2023
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Likes are the language and the beautiful imagery
Dislikes are the confusing plot and character work. Hard to follow at time
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