
Grainy and stripped down, this gritty novel traces the downbeat progress of a tough, queer girl growing up in working-class Boston by "a cult figure to a generation of post-punk females forming their own literary avant-garde" (The New York Times). Why...

Cool for You 's tough-girl narrator wants to be an astronaut. Instead, she becomes a poet and journeys through a series of low-end schools, pathetic jobs, and unmade beds. Schooled by mean and memorable Catholic nuns, this tomboy heroine stumbles and dreams her way through the...

Grainy and stripped, this gritty novel traces the downbeat progress of a girl growing up in working-class Boston. -Eileen Myles is a genius - -- Dorothy Allison