Emma Cline's 'The Girls' is a gorgeous, disqueiting spin on Manson family dynamics

“I was a daisy-fresh girl and look what you've done to me.” ― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“The Girls” is gorgeous, disquieting, and really, really good.

Set mostly in the Bay Area at the tail end of the 1960s, the novel follows Evie Boyd through the “endless, formless summer” before she goes off...