“In Sanders’s hands, what is usually cliché or gratuitous is hot.” —Amy Ray of the Indigo GirlsAward-winning novelist Lauren Sanders offers a story about the isolation and loneliness of adolescence and the neglect—benign as it may be—of the familial, cultural, and political institutions that are supposed to provide some sort of “support system.”Lauren Sanders is a novelist and journalist who lives in New York City. Her highly acclaimed debut novel, Kamikaze Lust (Akashic, 2000), won a 2001 Lambda Literary Award. Sanders’s writing has appeared in many publications including the American Book Review, Poets & Writers, and Time Out New York.