Lauren Sanders – författare

“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.

Kamikaze Lusttakes the reader on an electrifying ride through the spectacle of life and death in millennial America.—Winner of a 2000 Lambda Literary Award"Like an official conducting an all-out strip search, first-time novelist Lauren Sanders plucks and probes her characters'' minds and bodies to reveal their hidden lusts, and when all is said and done, nary a body cavity is spared." —Time Out New York"This sexy little novel isn''t afraid to be steamy—but it isn''t too jaded for romance either." —The AdvocateKamikaze Lust takes the reader on an electrifying ride through the spectacle of life and death in millennial America. Smart, hardboiled, and humorous, the novel taps our current obsession with sex and death, sex and popular culture, sex and the written word, sex and pornography, sex and green M&Ms, and, of course, the perennial sex and love.

The author of the Lambda Literary Award winner Kamikaze Lust delivers "a thrilling tale of espionage, family ties, sex, love, and betrayal" (The Advocate). Jennifer Baron is a failed Olympic speed skater now running her family''s foundation and trying to stay sober, when her billionaire father disappears. She travels to Israel in search of him, becoming recklessly entangled in his illegal dealings and with his enigmatic lover, Gila, a former Mossad agent gone bad. Along the way, she is drawn into the shadow worlds of the Promised Land, where career-jockeying government agents, fake Orthodox Jews, queer Palestinians on the run, and other displaced wanderers scramble to find home amid the endless cycles of war, occupation, and heartbreak. The Book of Love and Hate is an unraveling of white-collar crime and its motivations. It''s a testament to the magnificent oblivion of love and a shattering of inherited trauma, both personal and historical. "A thriller of literary pedigree, unbound by convention . . . If you''re seeking a cathartic resolution in the final pages, you might be disappointed—but you shouldn''t be surprised. Not when you''re talking about Israel and corrupt fortunes, and madness, obsession, and abuse . . . Just don''t expect to find a safe, comforting space in the pages of Lauren Sanders''s discomforting and terrific book." —The Village Voice "Sanders knows how to craft a story. The storyline is riveting, and the personal development of the characters kept me engaged on a deeper level than even her thrilling plot could. Her prose is beautiful and brings you to an ending that is sure to have you reeling." —Windy City Times