More friends with more books!

Look! It's Lea's book! It just came out today -- two days after her wedding (ZOMG) -- now she's married, with a little book-baby! Bar Flower is the story of Lea's (decadently destructive) time as a Japanese bar hostess -- part geisha, part booze salesman, all hustler. It's getting great reviews ("A juicy read" from Kirkus Reviws, "Endlessly candid and engaging" from Booklist, and an A- from E Weekly!), and I'm kvelling for her so hard I'm hurting myself.

Also just out: a reissue of Ariel Schrag's first two books, Awkward and Definition. I'd already read her third book, Potential (and bought copies for some of my favorite young women), but I'd never been able to get a hold of these; the minute I did, I sat right down and tore through them in an afternoon. Written and drawn during the summers after Ariel's freshman and sophomore years of high school, these books are so funny, painful, and honest; it's prescient work from a precociously talented kid (okay, she's not a kid anymore, though she is still, disgustingly, many years younger than me).

Yes, I am bragging again about all the cool writer chicks I know. That's just how I (blog)roll.

Comments

[satia]

I never heard of Ariel Schrag and immediately emailed my daughter. Oy, have you heard of . . . ?

Nope.

???

Well, we are going to have to remedy that asap. We're both interested in checking her work out and thank you for pointing these out to us. :)