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- ISBN:1-894692-10-1
- $24.95
- Fiction
- 324pp
- 2004
Award-winning author Emily Pohl-Weary brings us contemporary heroine Sugar Jones in a sexy and spirited coming-of-age tale.
After Sugar's rock star boyfriend dies, she spends sleepless nights in her basement apartment, talking to his ghost and watching Parker Posey movies. With her New Age mother and her blue-haired best friend hounding her to get a job, Sugar digs herself out and connects with an eclectic cast of counterculture disturbers. Camcorder in hand, she stands up to her demons – real and imagined – and shakes the awful-sweet boy she loved. A guiding light for searching girls everywhere.
"Sugar is the charming and infectious creation of a savvy observer and disturber of popular culture."
Camilla Gibb, author of The Petty Details of So-and-so's Life
"Deadpan prose that draws on a messy bedroom of cultural references. Crisp, intelligent, and alert, like an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer directed by John Waters."
Michael Turner, author of Hard Core Logo