Crashing America - Softcover

Noyes, Katia

3.49

59 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1555839118 ISBN 13: 9781555839116

Publisher: Alyson Pubns, 2005

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When her best friend dies, Girl, the 17-year-old street-punk narrator of Crashing America, leaves San Francisco for the heartland in search of a place where she can breathe again. Torn between her innate restlessness, an overwhelming longing for a sense of home, and a desperate fear of impending death, Girl seeks to link herself to almost anyone she crosses paths with: a bored housewife in Salt Lake City casting a net for illicit thrills, a born-again Christian punk rocker and his girlfriend, a teenage waitress in a small town with a horizon so endless Girl is terrified to leave her hotel room. On a farm in Nebraska with her old friend Randa, Randa’s boyfriend Bill, and Bill’s extended family, Girl finds something that seems awfully close to what she is seeking. But as the harvest progresses, what at first looked like salvation becomes something darker, and Girl hits the road in a stolen car headed for Memphis and one last chance for survival. Katia Noyes’ brave debut is a story about seeking the still point in an ever-turning world. With hell-bent accuracy, Noyes spins a tale about the forgotten people at the heart of America as revealing as an impromptu detour off an interstate highway.

Katia Noyes left home at the age of 15. She has worked as a roofer, math tutor, factory worker, and go-go dancer. An arts reporter and former columnist for SF Weekly in San Francisco, her fiction has been published in Home Stretch, Sex Spoken Here, and Paramour. She has twice been a finalist for the Astraea Lesbian Writers Fund grant. Noyes currently develops content for educational publishers and remains involved with organizations that serve runaway youths.

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About the Author:

Katia Noyes left home at the age of 15. She has worked as a roofer, math tutor, factory worker, and go-go dancer. An arts reporter and former columnist for SF Weekly in San Francisco, She has twice been a finalist for the Astraea Lesbian Writers Fund gran

Review:

"Crashing America might be the Great American Novel." -- Curve Magazine, February 2005

"A fiercely well-written account of youth's desperation and longing for change." -- Girlfriends Magazine, September 2005

"A post-gay coming-of-age story as contemporary as it is timeless." -- Out Magazine, October 2005

"If there is such a thing as a fertility novel, Noyes has written it." -- BookSlut.com, June 2006

"It's like if Janis Joplin wrote a novel and didn't die on us, but sang the whole damn thing." -- Author Eileen Myles

"San Francisco writer Katia Noyes's rough-edged, gleaming first novel is a queer road trip to remember." -- The Advocate, September 13, 2005

One of the Ten Best Gay/Lesbian Books of 2005 -- Amazon.com

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