Sarah

A deft and imaginative...novel * New York Times Book Review * LeRoy's work is a startling achievement in his accelerating mastery of the literary form * Publishers Weekly * Extraordinarily, LeRoy manages to lace this story with tenderness and humour. Not for the fainthearted, these few raw pages constitute a breathtaking debut * Guardian * Sarah has a strong seductive quality, and it is impossible to forget. LeRoy's ability to present trauma and tenderness simultaneously is entirely his own. 'This book is nothing short of a miracle,' LeRoy has said. I have to agree * New Statesman * Extraordinary. LeRoy writes with astonishing flair and confidence, making Sarah a very impressive debut indeed * Sunday Telegraph * Sarah is surprising, upsetting, offensive, and fun. It's everything a good read - or good sex for that matter - should be * Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club * Like a cross between Nathanael West and Mark Twain, drunk out of their minds and collaborating on Charlie's Angels meets The Headless Horseman - Sarah is a wildly comic tour de force and a brilliant debut * Mary Gaitskill, author of Two Girls, Fat and Thin * JT LeRoy is one of the most interesting, passionate and gifted of writers, very few have his heart and courage. I admire his writing tremendously * Lou Reed (The Velvet Underground) * LeRoy brushed achingly close to duplicating Genet's legerdemain - mythologizing self-abasement so as to transform it into glorious apotheosis * New York Times * I have just finished reading Sarah and found it incredible, very moving, very sad and very beautiful * PJ Harvey * Sarah is weird, darkly funny and haunting. JT LeRoy has a gift, to be able to articulate his world so clearly and astringently, with grace and humor, but without glossing over the pain and brutality of it * Suzanne Vega * Remarkable * Diva magazine *

JT LeRoy is the literary persona created by Laura Albert. She is the author of Sarah, The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things, and Harold's End