Fiction. "Patterson's sharp-edged, disaffected but hopeful teenage heroine Orleigh wends her way through a Midwestern suburban wasteland of Gen-Y anomie, dead-end jobs, petty crime, sex and drugs, until she is saved by the transformative power of love. An affecting, fresh first novel" - Kate Christensen, author of In the Drink. "àcombines the drugged-out zaniness of a Grateful Dead concert with the obsessive, depressive romance of an old Cure song. Read it and weep" - Lauren Sanders, author of Kamikaze Lust. "Her book makes the reader rethink a world they might have thought they had known by revealing the complex layers of humanity that exist beneath the commonplaceàThis is a masterful debut" Henry Flesh, Lambda Award winning author of MICHAEL and MASSAGE also carried by SPD.