Queer Girls Hit the Road!

Tue, Sep 20
7:00 pm
Free

To launch the much-anticipated new books by Ali Liebegott (The
Beautifully Worthless) and Katia Noyes (Crashing America), Suspect
Thoughts Press is proud to announce the following event in San
Francisco on September 20, 2005.

Queer Girls Hit the Road!
Ali Liebegott reads from The Beautifully Worthless
Katia Noyes reads from Crashing America

The Beautifully Worthless is a brilliant novel in verse about a
runaway waitress and her Dalmatian, Rorschach, who leave Brooklyn to
find hope in a town named Camus, Idaho. Through a series of hilarious
and heartbreaking letters to the ex back in Brooklyn, combined with
some of the most exquisite poetry ever written about love and
heartache and madness and crushes gone far askew, our heroine invites
the reader to tag along with her and her faithful companion on their
postmodern odyssey through an American landscape filled with ex-
girlfriends, cute boys, a mysterious cave, mental institutions,
sports radio, warm six-packs, roulette wheels, murder sites, Dairy
Queens, and pineapple-upside-down cakes with family in Vegas.

After a sudden loss, a seventeen-year-old street punk flees San
Francisco, hell-bent on chasing women and adventure. When an old
friend challenges her to work the harvest, the cornfields of northern
Nebraska flicker with idyllic promise. Can she bury her demons and
find a place of belonging? Crashing America is a road story about
seeking the still point on a moving highway. With language both
ferocious and lyrical, Katia Noyes' debut novel connects a restless
Californian with the forgotten people of the open plains to create a
vivid map of the fractures in the American psyche.

Venue:

A Clean Well-Lighted Place for Books
601 Van Ness Avenue
San Francisco
415-441-6670
http://www.bookstore.com

Additional Info:

415-441-6670
http://www.bookstore.com