Set in 1980s California, The Wonder Bread Summer is a wickedly funny and fresh caper that's sure to please fans of Christopher Moore, Carl Hiaasen, and Marcy Dermansky. But there's a problem: Her mom took off when Allison was eight her dad moves so often Allison that doesn't even have his phone number. With a hit man after her, Allison wants the help of her parents. And Allison ends up on the run-with a Wonder Bread bag full of cocaine. The dress shop turns out to be a front for drug dealers. Or those of Weeds' Nancy Botwin.Īllison is working at a dress shop to help pay for college. In The Wonder Bread Summer, loosely based on Alice in Wonderland, 20-year-old Allie Dodgson has adventures that rival those Alice had down the rabbit hole.
Jessica Anya Blau, author of The Summer of Naked Swim Parties and Mary Jane, delivers a darkly hilarious, heartbreaking coming-of-age novel with The Wonder Bread Summer. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title."Picaresque, properly funny, unpredictable and altogether irrepressible." -Nick Hornby, The Believer Brilliantly envisioned, this story of passion, and familial dysfunction, bears witness to an exquisite reknitting of a young woman's soul, told in language that is brave, startling and ultimately tender and wise." "Inside a psychiatric ward in the 1970s, Leora Skolkin-Smith's Hystera takes you on a ride through the wilderness of a young woman's emotional trauma and breakdown, and seizes upon the intricacies of mental health, our phobias, and fears around it. Joan Silber, author of Ideas of Heaven: A Ring of Stories, finalist for the National Book Award "In language with the wild power of accuracy, Hystera maps a path through the landscape of trauma and illness, the feverish news of the seventies, and a character's own indelibly vivid imagery of alarm and comfort. After a fatal accident takes her father away, Lillian Weill blames herself for the family tragedy. The story follows the main character's slow recovery. Set in the turbulent 1970s when Patty Hearst became Tanya the Revolutionary, Leora Skolkin-Smiths Hystera is a timeless story of madness, yearning, and identity. Set against the backdrop of the social turmoil of the seventies era, it tells the story of a young woman suffering from a physical and sexual delusion.
Caroline Leavitt, Reviewer for "The Boston Globe", "PEOPLE Magazine", "The New York Times", and "New York Times" bestselling author of Pictures of You Hystera takes place inside a New York City mental hospital in 1974. Skolkin-Smith's alchemy is to inhabit her characters even as she crafts a riveting story that is nothing short of brilliant." "Hystera is a haunting, mesmerizing story of madness, longing and identity, set against one of the most fascinating times in NYC history.
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