Naked Girl by Janna Brooke Wallack

A lyrical and unflinching dive into a radical childhood, Naked Girl by Janna Brooke Wallack is an emotive novel about the meaning of home when it is fleeting and ephemeral. Jackson is an enigmatic whirlwind of a father more interested in leading a coastal commune than raising two children, which leads Siddhi and Sienna to form a profoundly independent sibling bond. Taking readers across oceans and friendships and wild years of formative exposure, Wallack’s prose is alive with the open-eyed curiosity of youth. Navigating clashes of belief and morality, as well as the storms of sex, fidelity, religion, and “traditional” family structures, this revelatory novel is a poignant exploration of the stress and liberation of growing older in a world that never seems to grow up.