Welcome to Litsy!

One of today�s most provocative literary writers�the author of the critically acclaimed Sunshine State and the Los Angeles Times First Fiction Award finalist Binary Star�captures the confused state of modern romance and the egos that inflate it in a dark comedy about a woman's search for acceptance, identity, and financial security in the rise of Trump. Nina is a struggling writer, a college drop-out, a liar, and a cheater. More than anything she wants love. She deserves it. From the burned-out suburbs of Florida to the anonymous squalor of New York City, she eats through an incestuous cast of characters in search of it: her mother, a narcissistic lesbian living in a nudist polycule; Odessa, a single mom with even worse taste in men than Nina; Seth, an artist whose latest show is comprised of three Tupperware containers full of trash; Brian, whose roller-coaster affair with Nina is the most stable �relationship� in his life; and Aaron, an aspiring filmmaker living at home with his parents, with whom Nina begins to write her magnum opus. Nina�s quest for fulfillment is at once darkly comedic, acerbically acute, and painfully human�a scathing critique of contemporary society, and a tender examination of our anguished yearning for connection in an era defined by detachment.