Urgent and auspicious debut novel told in the voices of a young woman and her alcoholic aunt.
After a family fight, Tilly Rudolph abandoned her home and headed for the big skies and hedonistic ways of Reno, Nevada, where, step-by-step, she slipped into prostitution and addiction. Thirty years later, Stella, a young woman living a successful but soulless life in New York City, is shocked to learn about the existence of her rebellious aunt. The two women meet, and, in alternating chapters, narrate their respective crises, their shattered dreams, and their self-destructive relationships with men. An astonishing and anticipated debut novel from an extraordinary young talent, THE GIN CLOSET marks the literary arrival of Leslie Jamison (BEST NEW AMERICAN VOICES 2008), a writer of great fierceness, lyricism, and pathos.
- Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres, Fiction + Literature Themes
- Subgenre: Family + Friendship, Human Qualities + Behavior, Literary Genres + Types of Novels, Literary, Love + Relationships + Sex
- Publisher: Free Pr
- Pages: 274
- Language: English
- Format: hardcover
- Release Date: February 16, 2010
- Date Published: February 16, 2010
- Author: Leslie Jamison