 | Crashing America
Noyes, Katia
A fearless queer adventure, is how author Michelle Tea (Chelsea Whistle) describes Katia Noyes debut novel, Crashing America while Eileen Myles (Cool For You) evokes the name of a legendary artist to describe it: It's like if Janis Joplin wrote a novel and didn't die on us, but sang the whole damn thing. Crashing America is a road novel unlike any you have ever read before, in Noyes’ assured narrative movement becomes the only way to bring stillness to a restless heart. When her best friend dies, Girl, the 17-year-old street-punk narrator of Crashing America, leaves San Francisco for the heartland in search of a place where she can breathe again. Torn between her innate restlessness, an overwhelming longing for a sense of home, and a desperate fear of impending death, Girl seeks to link herself to almost anyone she crosses paths with: a bored housewife in Salt Lake City casting a net for illicit thrills, a born-again Christian punk rocker and his girlfriend, a teenage waitress in a small town with a horizon so endless Girl is terrified to leave her hotel room. On a farm in Nebraska with her old friend Randa, Randa's boyfriend Bill, and Bill's extended family, Girl finds something that seems awfully close to what she is seeking. But as the harvest progresses, what at first looked like salvation becomes something darker, and Girl hits the road in a stolen car headed for Memphis and one last chance for survival. Katia Noyes's brave debut novel of the people who truly form the heart of America is a story about seeking stillness through ceaseless movement. With dazzling language, Noyes tells a tale as endlessly revealing as an impromptu detour off an interstate highway. (Alyson)
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