Love and Death with the In Crowd

Stories

By: Jessica Anya Blau

Narrated by: Elizabeth Pence

We think of the past as a more innocent time. But in these stories of California teenagers acting out in the last years of the '70s, it's easy to see that love, loss, and heartbreak are even more poignant when viewed through 15- or 16-year-old eyes. Surrounded by friends and family who are spinning with their own losses and heartache, these teenage girls navigate the terrors and tenderness of life in the only ways they know how.

In this touching and moving pair of coming-of-age stories, best-selling author Jessica Anya Blau makes it clear that once you step over certain lines, there's no going back. Jessica Anya Blau's newest novel, The Wonder Bread Summer, was picked for CNN's, NPR's, Vanity Fair's, and Oprah Book Club's summer reading lists. It received multiple offers from Hollywood movie studios and was optioned. Her novel Drinking Closer to Home was featured in Target stores as a "Breakout Book" and made many Best Books of the Year lists. Blau's first novel, The Summer of Naked Swim Parties, was a national best seller and was picked as a Best Summer Book by the Today Show, the New York Post, and New York magazine. The San Francisco Chronicle and other newspapers chose it as one of the Best Books of the Year, and the film rights have been optioned. Blau cowrote the screenplay for Franny, a film starring Frances Fisher and Steve Howey.

This is a short audiobook published by Shebooks - high-quality fiction, memoir, and journalism for women, by women.

©2014 Jessica Anya Blau (P)2015 Audible, Inc.

Why?

I like this author and was excited to reminisce based on the description of this story. Instead I found this pointless, crude and depressing. Didn’t relate. It ended very suddenly…honestly, I was glad.

Over, already!?

I did not realize it was soo, short. I was waiting to get invested in other characters in the story and compare their experience.

Nostalgic and fun

I like everything by this author I’ve listened to. This story is short and sweet about high school girls coming of age in 1970s suburbia