When you’re 13 years old, it behooves you to think in “we,” terms. There is something communal about your suffering and your obsessions; it is safer if you all hate the same person, or wear the same color of nail polish. Dizz Tate captures the sticky, grabby feeling of puberty in her addictive, haunting debut novel Brutes, which was inspired by her obsession with Florida, mid-aughts teen stardom, and puberty.
