ABSTRACT
Queen of Stones, a female version of Lord of the Flies, uses documents to reconstruct a fictional event. Besides presenting the lives of adolescent girls, the novel also satirizes society's official interpretation of adolescence, particularly Freudian analysis. The narrator pontificates: "Thus, perhaps, will the psychopathology of the developing female be more fully comprehended; as also the mythology sustaining our concept of the feminine in society." The narrator, whom Tennant has described as "pretty stupid," ends by blaming all the sinister events in the novel on the arrival of the first menstrual period of one of the main characters.
