7 Books About Girls Doing Crime - Electric Literature

7 Books About Girls Doing Crime - Electric Literature

I was in high school when I first read Patty Hearst’s memoir, Every Secret Thing, in which she recounts the nightmare of being kidnapped by a group of urban guerrillas and coerced to join their cell. For a year and a half, Hearst committed a series of crimes with the Symbionese Liberation Army before being arrested and convicted for bank robbery. Reading this as a suburban teenager, my reaction was: God, if only something that exciting would hap…