''Brave New Girl'' is the first novel by
Louisa Luna. It was published by
MTV
MTV (Originally an initialism of Music Television) is an American cable channel that launched on August 1, 1981. Based in New York City, it serves as the flagship property of the MTV Entertainment Group, part of Paramount Media Networks, a di ...
Books in early 2001. The book was written by Luna when she was at
New York University.
The novel tracks the adolescent angst of the protagonist, Doreen Severna, who is comparable to the character
Holden Caulfield from ''
The Catcher in the Rye''. The story takes place in
Pasadena, California
Pasadena ( ) is a city in Los Angeles County, California, northeast of downtown Los Angeles. It is the most populous city and the primary cultural center of the San Gabriel Valley. Old Pasadena is the city's original commercial district.
I ...
, the summer before Doreen's freshman year in high school.
Doreen is a fourteen-year-old outcast with only one friend, the equally marginalized Ted. The two share an intense love of music (mainly
The Pixies) and knowledge of what it's like to be alienated.
The novel's title is a play on
Aldous Huxley's ''
Brave New World'' — a title which is itself drawn from
William Shakespeare's ''
The Tempest'', act V, scene I.
The book is mentioned in The Pixies documentary ''
loudQUIETloud
loudquietloud, stylized as LoudQUIETloud, is a 2006 film directed by Steven Cantor and Matthew Galkin.
Synopsis
Alt-rock legends the Pixies
Pixies is an American alternative rock band formed in 1986, in Boston, Massachusetts. Until 20 ...
''.
References
2005 American novels
Novels set in California
Pasadena, California
Pixies (band)
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