The early '80s in the lower east side of New York was a thrilling time for the popular music and art culture created at the end of the punk and New Wave eras. It was also a devastating time of drug addiction and the beginning of
AIDS awareness. In her stunning first novel, Linda Yablonsky, a survivor of that dangerous time, tells the story of a would-be writer turned heroin junkie who deals to queers,
artists, punks, and yuppies. This is an exquisitely written, brutal, caring book.
If you've ever wanted an honest account of the drug underworld, this is it. Drug trafficing, selling, and using in New
York City in the early 80's as seen through sarcastic eyes; I felt I was… I wasn't expecting to be impressed by the so-already-told story of a junky in the 80's, thus it struck me fully by surprise when I found myself so immersed into Yablonsky's words that life around me…
