She deserves it.įrom the burned-out suburbs of Florida to the anonymous squalor of New York City, she eats through an incestuous cast of characters in search of it: her mother, a narcissistic lesbian living in a nudist polycule Odessa, a single mom with even worse taste in men than Nina Seth, an artist whose latest show is comprised of three Tupperware containers full of trash Brian, whose roller-coaster affair with Nina is the most stable “relationship” in his life and Aaron, an aspiring filmmaker living at home with his parents, with whom Nina begins to write her magnum opus. Nina is a struggling writer, a college drop-out, a liar, and a cheater. One of today’s most provocative writers-the author of the critically acclaimed Sunshine State and the Los Angeles Times First Fiction Award finalist Binary Star -captures the confused state of modern romance and the egos that inflate it in a dark comedy about a woman’s search for acceptance, identity, and financial security in the rise of Trump. Read Emmalea Russo’s review in The LA Review of Books
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