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Finished Bliss by Lauren Myracle for the New Authors Challenge.
This was a really good, really unsettling book. It's set in 1969-1970 when Bliss (teenage girl who is fresh from a commune) goes to live with her grandmother in Atlanta. She starts attending an uber-exclusive school and starts making friends.
And then she starts hanging out with the school outcast, who initially seems nice enough (if a little weird) and then quickly takes a detour to Crazytown.
In between chapters are diary entries and quotes (most of which are either from The Andy Griffith Show* or the Charles Manson trial--which obviously doesn't do much to alleviate the book's unsettling quality).
I'd recommend this, but again--really creepy. And I have a decent threshold for creepy. Also, it's the kind of creepy that sneaks up on you. By the end of the book, I had that creepy "someone's watching me" feeling.
Still, on the plus side, there were no bugs. So points for that.
* = That's one of the few shows that Bliss's grandmother approves of.
