"In Sanders's hands, what is usually cliché or gratuitous is hot." --Amy Ray of the Indigo Girls Award-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 theAmerican Book Review,Poets & Writers, andTime Out New York.