FoxfireBy: Joyce Carol Oates New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oatess strongest and most unsparing novel yetan always engrossing, often shocking evocation of female rage, gallantry, and grit. The time is the 1950s. The place is a blue collar town in upstate New York, where five high school girls join a gang dedicated to pride, power, and vengeance on a world that seems made to denigrate and destroy them. Here is the secret history of a sisterhood