A coming-of-age story that 'manages to bottle up that chaotic and messy feeling of girlhood' (Stylist), from a fresh and radical new talent

'Riveting.' Elle
'Brilliant.' Sophie Mackintosh
'Glittering.' Marie Claire
'Enthralling.' New York Times
'Manages to bottle up that chaotic and messy feeling of girlhood.' Stylist


Huddled at a bedroom window, a group of teenagers peer out at their scorched, swampy, fame-hungry town. Taking turns with the binoculars, their gaze sweeps across the highway and the abandoned construction site to the lake. Figures drift across the landscape: mothers, fathers, a preacher's daughter.

These girls know everything about everyone - perhaps too much.

'Beautiful and deeply strange. I loved it.' Mariana Enriquez
'Assured, insightful, quietly savage.' Nicole Flattery
'Brutes feels wonderfully untethered, wild and unpredictable.' Danya Kukafka