With the haunting, romantic voyeurism of The Virgin Suicides and the atmosphere and emotional intensity of Where the Crawdads Sing, an intoxicating Southern Gothic debut novel about identical triplets whose lives are devastated when their burgeoning desires turn deadly.

Identical triplets Baby A, Baby B, and Baby C Binderup were welcomed into the world as their mother was ushered out of it, leaving them nameless and in the care of their Gram, Isadora. Nineteen years later, the triplets work at their Gram’s crumbling golf course in Longshadow, Texas, where the ever-watchful eyes of the town observe them serving up glasses of ice-cold lemonade to golfers, swimming in the murky waters of the neighboring bayou, or slipping t-shirts off their sunburnt shoulders in hopes of attracting the kind of attention they are only beginning to understand.

Cautious Baby B watches as lustful Baby A and introverted Baby C find matches among the town boys. Even Baby B has noticed that the town’s golden boy seems to be intrigued by her, only her. Just as each girl’s desire to be seen for herself is becoming fulfilled, a seemingly trivial kiss is bestowed on the wrong sister, leading to a moment of unspeakable violence that will upend the triplets’ world forever.

Pulsating with menace and narrated with hypnotic lyricism, Girls with Long Shadows is an electrifying literary thriller that captures how female teenage angst can turn lethal when insecurities are weaponized and sibling bonds are severed. Tense, lush, and painfully beautiful, it forces us to consider the lengths to which we will go to claim our own personhood.

PRAISE FOR GIRLS WITH LONG SHADOWS

‘Tennessee Hill delivers a lush and lacerating Southern Gothic debut that reads like a fever dream…Hill’s prose is rich and elegiac, steeped in fervor and memory, with vivid sensory detail and a slow, simmering tension that builds toward devastation…a story that leaves a bruise — tender, disquieting and impossible to ignore. — The Seattle Times

‘Atmospheric debut . . . .The sense of dread simmers until a shocking tragedy rends the sisters apart and rocks all of Longshadow. A moody and meditative slow-burn bildungsroman.’ — Booklist

‘Hill’s prose is thick with atmosphere.’ — Publishers Weekly

‘Echoing The Virgin Suicides, this Southern Gothic literary thriller explores what happens when teenage angst and female desire turn deadly.’ — Bustle

 ‘Tennessee Hill's first novel, Girls with Long Shadows, is a dreamy, atmospheric tale of sisterhood and coming-of-age . . . . A tautly plotted Southern gothic . . . . Encompassing a single summer in the dripping, humid South, Hill's haunting debut deals in lyricism and tragedy as it considers the harm done to young women by the outside gaze.’ — Shelf Awareness

'Girls with Long Shadows, Tennessee Hill’s riveting debut novel, is a brilliant, engrossing portrait of three sisters and the bonds of love and betrayal. Babies A, B, and C—triplet girls whose mother died young—move from a plural unity to their splintered selves within a town where the chorus of voices and history provide an emotionally charged backdrop for all that plays out. Hill is a gifted talent and I look forward to more.' — Jill McCorkle, New York Times bestselling author of Old Crimes and Life After Life

'Singular, striking, and sly, Girls with Long Shadows seduced me from its first sentence to its last. This book has so much scathing beauty in it I could feel the scrape of a knife on every page. What a delicate, hot-blooded tempest of a debut.' — Amy Jo Burns, author of Mercury

'Girls with Long Shadows is like nothing I've read before, yet achingly familiar in its complex portrayal of sisters, identity, and teenage girlhood. Atmospheric, addictive, a beating heart of a book. Tennessee Hill writes like a dream.' — Julia Fine, author of What Should Be Wild and Maddalena and the Dark

'A poetic, haunting, haunted novel—as suspenseful as it is lyrical. Within a sisterhood that's more like self-replication, Girls with Long Shadows maps the shimmering contours of identity and unfolds the kinds of damage only our most beloved can do to us. Baby B and her sisters moved and unsettled me and worked their way deep under my skin.' — Clare Beams, author of The Garden

'With bewitching lyricism and intimacy, Tennessee Hill invokes the rivalries, secrets, and betrayals that swirl around the near-mythic Binderup triplets in small-town South Texas. These sweltering summer days on the bayou seethe with fury and lust and shared grief, along with a tender evocation of the desire to be seen and known. Girls with Long Shadows is a scorcher of a first novel, stupefyingly good.' — Bryn Chancellor, author of Sycamore