They lurk through the story as we are told a local girl has gone missing. The novel is not told by a single narrator but by a chorus who moves and thinks as one. The book, a story of a strange group of girls who act as a single entity, recalls Jeffrey Eugenides’s 1993 debut novel The Virgin Suicides. Tate’s Floridian roots came in handy when deciding a location for her debut novel, Brutes. “I just completely fell in love with it.” “I was watching it as if it was a movie,” Tate tells me in the Faber offices in Bloomsbury. As a blow-in, she approached her new surroundings with the observant eye of an outsider, sizing up the fairground town like a topographer. Born in London but raised in Orlando, Florida, Tate spent most of her teen years in the States, attending a high school that lay in the shadow of roller coasters and round-ups. Dizz Tate’s accent flicks between British and American, a result of her transatlantic upbringing.
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