The Cave Dwellers

Ginger says: This is the psychological litfic novel I rarely recommend even though I took it down in practically one unputdownable gulp. Here’s why: this book is salacious and shocking. There’s a rough and ugly core papered over with public gentility. The Cave Dwellers follows the lives of privileged teens and their families as they socialize, power-grab, and deal with the aftermath of a murder in their midst. It grapples with hard topics like class and is positively filled with unlikeable characters, which is kind of like this city sometimes. Have I talked you out of it? Don’t let me. For all that, I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it since I read it years ago. Even so, mind your (many) triggers. It’s not going to be for every reader.