GIRLS NIGHT

Fight Club reimagined with badass queer girls you can’t help but root for.

After self-proclaimed “gossip queen” Alex Veck sees her first fight, something shifts inside her. She starts digging into why new kid Clementine Rady was beating up popular class president Olive Barnes in a hallway at school, but in return for the inside scoop, Alex becomes indebted to someone dangerous: Tulsi Ortiz is a not-particularly-cheery cheerleader with a lot of social capital. Classmate Sunju Park also has secrets to hide. After the four girls attend a party that’s broken up by the police, they start to bond, forming an unlikely friend group. Alex has a wild idea: Maybe they could fight each other. For fun. And it is fun, so much that they don’t want it to stop. As the quartet grows closer, though, their clashing personalities and different backgrounds aren’t the only obstacles they face. Someone discovers the existence of Girls Night, their fight club—someone who has different plans for the group. This is an exciting, banter-filled story centered on girls who are finding themselves and finding each other. Their delightful moments of genuine rawness come not from when they’re fighting but from when they’re not. The central cast of characters includes lightly developed diversity across multiple dimensions of identity, including disability, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and body size.

Endearing and fun.