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INTERVIEWERI wish Id had a glamorous teacher! My ballet teacher was very plain and just incredibly unforgiving.which is a really brilliant way to get at the menace and greed thats so prevalent in our real estate–obsessed culture.

I remember our teacher assuring us the light would hit the netting inside and it would look very dramatic! But I was also just old enough to sense a slightly queasy feeling among a few parents.ABBOTTIve always thought that was one of the most compelling things about teaching—how you can see versions of yourself.Abbott began to write about the violence of seemingly all-American girls in seemingly all-American suburbs.

she wrote and coproduced a television adaptation of her novel Dare Me and is now doing the same for The Turnout.These kinds of characters feel less subversive because they are so common in popular films and books—which is a fraught evolution.

It can be dangerous—as in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie—but I suppose it can save someones life.

These mysterious and private rituals of young women—these dark fairy tales—are at the heart of Abbotts work.INTERVIEWERWhat do you think when you look at it now?ABBOTTWhen I found that picture a few years ago.

How was it for you to write from the perspective of the adult Dara?ABBOTTShe came very naturally to me.INTERVIEWERDid you encounter any resistance to your vision of the teenage girls in Dare Me?ABBOTTSome.

I also wanted to use Dara to animate one of my other inspirations for the book—the way women judge other womens desires.but the adults seem warped and broken by age and life—they dont seem to be fighting for beauty anymore.