Sarah Blakley-Cartwright

Valerie is in love with the dangerous and unlikable Peter (a woodcutter, of course) but is betrothed to the rich hot blacksmith in town, Henry. Their town has been terrorized by a wolf ? a wolf that appears only at the full moon ? and when Valerie's sister is brutally murdered the message is clear: she's next.

Valerie is in love with the dangerous and unlikable Peter (a woodcutter, of course) but is betrothed to the rich hot blacksmith in town, Henry. Their town has been terrorized by a wolf - a wolf that appears only at the full moon - and when Valeries sister is brutally murdered the message is clear: shes next.

Sixteen-year-old Geraldine is left to navigate New Yorks high society after her mother disappears, falling under the influence of three women each seeking to form her in their image. Growing up on the road, it has always been the two of them, locked in dysfunction. Homeschooled, Gerry hasnt learned much math. Instead, her mother has taught her how to spend the day at a motels swimming pool without being a guest or how to dodge paying extra for the chicken on a Caesar salad.Gerry learns how to pass and adapt, but when she is abandoned in the city, Gerry finds herself in the care of three very different women, each intent on shaping her into competing and incompatible selves. First, there is her mothers old college friend Bonnie, who lives in a world of country clubs and chintzy domesticity. Then there is Nell, her mothers estranged sister and a successful artist who insists on ambition and self-invention. And finally Finley, an old-money socialite who ushers Gerry into a rarefied world of Manhattan privilege. A coming-of-age novel that explores unconventional forms of motherhood and caretaking, Sarah Blakley-Cartwrights new novel is both a charming comedy of manners and a deeply probing look at the complexities of love, mental illness, and inheritance, and one young womans eccentric path to selfhood.

Obsessed! Chloe Sevigny I am literally obsessed. Busy PhilippsHailed as richly intimate and wickedly delightful (The New York Times Book Review), this steamy and incisive debut adult novel follows one womans affair with her daughters best friend, testing the limits of love and ambition.Its the opening night, but Alices performance in the local Bay Area production of The Winters Tale is far from glamourous. She doesnt have dreams of stardom, but the basement theater in a wildfire-choked town isnt exactly what she envisioned for her career back home in Los Angeles. To make matters worse, her best friend Sadie is not even coming.Pragmatic, serious Sadie and flighty, creative Alice have been best friends since high schoolreally one anothers only friendbut now that they are through with college (which they attended together) and living on opposite ends of California, Alice would at least expect her friends support. Sadie, determined not to cancel her plans with her boyfriend, ends up enlisting the help of her mother, Celine.A professor of womens and gender studies at UC Berkeley, Celines landmark treatise on sex and identity made her notorious, but shes struggling to write her new book in a post-second-wave feminist world. So, when Sadie begs her to attend Alices play, she relents, if only to escape writers block. But in a turn of perplexing events, Celine becomes entranced by Alices performance and realizes that her daughters once lanky, slightly annoying best friend is now an irresistible young woman.Set over the course of decadesfrom Alice and Sadies early friendship days and Celines decision to leave her husband to the radical movements of the 1990s Berkeley and navigating contemporary HollywoodAlice and Celines love affair will test the limits of their love for Sadie and their own beliefs of power, agency, and feminism. Witty and relatable, sexy and surprising, Sarah Blakely-Cartwrights adult debut is a heartfelt, smart, and keenly observed take on friendship (Town & Country) and a mesmerizing portrait of the inner lives of three very different women.

La campana de la aldea dobla una, dos, tres veces: alguien ha sido asesinado.Repica una cuarta vez...El asesino es el Lobo.En una época en que las aldeas son tan pequeñas que todo el mundo se conoce, una muchacha intenta abrirse camino en la vida. Y Valerie no es una buena chica. Cuando el hombre lobo la elige, ella debe tomar una decision imposible. Con un matrimonio concertado en su nombre y un amor sincero que la invita a la huida, Valerie no tiene a quien recurrir. Su padre esta borracho en el pueblo, su madre desea controlarla, y las demas chicas... se apresuran a acusarla de brujeria.¿Quien la salvara? ¿O puede salvarse ella sola?En esta nueva, peligrosa y absorbente version del cuento clasico, quiza resulte complicado dar con un final feliz.