Amanda Boyden

Lisa escapes from her troubled life into the family life of her best friend, embarking on a friendship that takes both girls into the complexities of male-female relationships, experimentation, self-destruction, and freedom.

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Pretty Little Dirty

In 2004, the lives of five families who share the same New Orleans street intersect, overlap, and collide over the course of a year, in a novel that captures a turbulent world of conflicting dreams and the realities of racism in America.

Babylon Rolling

From the author of the acclaimed debut Pretty Little Dirty comes a complex, seductive novel about race and culture, set in New Orleans. Babylon Rolling is a glittering, gritty, unflinching novel of five families living along an Uptown block in the year before Hurricane Katrina. Told in numerous voices, it explores what happens when forces collide in the boozy, humid city that care forgot. At once an exploration of ethnicity and a portrait of a city on the edge of annihilation, Babylon Rolling is a brave and masterful novel.

This memoir is unflinching, raw, sometimes hilarious, sometimes painful-the self-portrait of a woman unafraid to scream to the universe: I survived this! Dog tails Boyden from childhood to adult heartbreak, from a devastating rape as a young woman to the crushing end of her marriage, destroyed by infidelity and another woman's pregnancy.

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