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GROUPIES
This debut novel - perfect for fans of Taylor Jenkins Reid, Emma Cline and Chandler Baker - follows a group of young women, including a fledgling photographer, and their relationship with one of the country's biggest rock 'n' roll bands in 1970s Los Angeles, as the fun times soon spiral into personal tragedies and public scandals.
It's 1977 and Faun Novak is in love with rock 'n' roll. After her reclusive mother's death, the naive college dropout grabs her Polaroid camera and hops a bus to Los Angeles, where she reconnects with her charismatic childhood friend Josie, now an up-and-coming model and muse. When Josie introduces Faun to her boyfriend's legendary rock band Holiday Sun, Faun is mesmerized. But it's not just the band she can't get enough of. It's also the proud groupies who support them in myriad ways. Among the groupies are a doting high school girl at war with her family, a drug-dealing wife and new mom who might have been a star herself and a cynical mover-and-shaker with a soft spot for Holiday Sun's bassist.
Faun obsessively photographs every aspect of this glimmering new world, struggling to balance her artistic ambitions with the band's expectations. As her confidence grows for the first time in her life, her priorities shift. She becomes reckless with friendship, romance, her ethics and her bank account. Meanwhile, she's as blind as ever to the darkest corners of her dreamland - until someone ends up dead.
In the trying aftermath, Faun seeks justice and closure that could destroy her place in the only world she has left.
GROUPIES shines its spotlight on the women who unapologetically love too much in a world that doesn't love them back. It is equal parts tender and cutting as it explores fame, desire, feminism, the media and most importantly, the messy relationships that underlie everything we do.
Sarah Priscus is a Canadian writer. Her short stories and poetry have been published online in journals including Barren Magazine, New South Journal, Ellipsis Zine, and Milk Candy Review. Her story "[saxophone solo]" appeared in Bone & Ink Press's 2019 anthology Shut Down Strangers and Hot Rod Angels. She received a Best of the Net nomination for a story published in Atlas & Alice, and a Pushcart Prize nomination for a story published in Milk Candy Review.
Faun obsessively photographs every aspect of this glimmering new world, struggling to balance her artistic ambitions with the band's expectations. As her confidence grows for the first time in her life, her priorities shift. She becomes reckless with friendship, romance, her ethics and her bank account. Meanwhile, she's as blind as ever to the darkest corners of her dreamland - until someone ends up dead.
In the trying aftermath, Faun seeks justice and closure that could destroy her place in the only world she has left.
GROUPIES shines its spotlight on the women who unapologetically love too much in a world that doesn't love them back. It is equal parts tender and cutting as it explores fame, desire, feminism, the media and most importantly, the messy relationships that underlie everything we do.
Sarah Priscus is a Canadian writer. Her short stories and poetry have been published online in journals including Barren Magazine, New South Journal, Ellipsis Zine, and Milk Candy Review. Her story "[saxophone solo]" appeared in Bone & Ink Press's 2019 anthology Shut Down Strangers and Hot Rod Angels. She received a Best of the Net nomination for a story published in Atlas & Alice, and a Pushcart Prize nomination for a story published in Milk Candy Review.
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Published 2022-07-12 by William Morrow |