Bøker av Kaethe Cherney

"Kaethe Cherney's moving story follows a spirited young girl through family breakdown, the madness of a cult and the temptations of New York when it was raw and wild. A bracing coming of age story and a perfect snapshot of the 1970's" - Mary Harron, director of 'American Psycho' A heart-breaking novel about an unusual childhood." - Alexander Stille, author of The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune "How a psychosexual 'cult' tried to tear apart [her] family." - New York Post "You won't be able to put it down!" - Giancarlo Esposito "A compelling read set in 1970's New York that paints a vivid, at times heartbreaking picture of a family in turmoil." - Cosey Fanni Tutti, author of 'Art, Sex and Music' and 'Re-Sisters: The Lives and Recordings of Delia Derbyshire, Margery Kempe and Cosey Fanni Tutti'.SynopsisNew York. 1970s. A collapsing family in a collapsing city. The Bronx is burning uptown while the beautiful people party downtown. After her father dies and her older siblings join the Sullivanian cult, Saskia becomes her mom's mom. The grit and glamour of after-hours Manhattan is portrayed through the lens of a bereaved teen, capturing the hormones and hedonism which come with navigating the complexities of the adult world. Harrowing yet hopeful, this is a story about losing love and finding it again.

After her beloved father suddenly dies, teenage Saskia gets a crash course in growing up, in the gritty glamour of 1970s New York. Her downwardly mobile family move from Gramercy Park to the seedy Upper West Side. Her mother becomes increasingly nihilistic and embarks on a sexual walkabout, which costs her the trust of Saskia's two older siblings, who consequently run away to join the Sullivanians, a predatory psychosexual cult. Ex-communicated by her siblings, Saskia becomes her mom's mom. High school becomes all about getting high at school, as Saskia struggles with grieving, hapless crushes, fixing her family, and the desire to be loved. This witty, heartbreaking, but ultimately affirming coming-of-age novel doubles as a love letter to a Manhattan of an edgier era, and speaks to the chaos of closure and the satisfaction of self-determination.