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Writer: Joy Nicholson; Genre: Fiction; Publisher: St. Martin's Press

THE TRIBES OF PALOS VERDES Joy Nicholson (St. Martin's, $19.95) Fourteen-year-old Medina Mason despairs as her parents' marriage disintegrates, her twin brother grows distant, and other girls shun her. While her heart-surgeon-to-the-stars father takes up with tennis-skirted bimbos, and her mother doubles her weight bingeing on angel food cake smothered in peanut butter, Medina embraces surfing with a ferocious intensity -- and a hidden agenda: No one can see her crying in the waves. First-time novelist Nicholson has captured the California-coast culture of surfing cliques, the ''tribes'' of the ultracool Bayboys, and the ornamental towel girls who open their beers. Medina, a gawky lone surfer girl, shows what it's like to feel ''6 million years old'' way before your time. A-


Posted Nov 07, 1997
 

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