Catalina / Liska Jacobs.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780374119751
- ISBN: 0374119759
- Physical Description: 230 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : MCD x FSG Originals/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017.
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Subject: | Young women > Fiction. Self-destructive behavior > Fiction. |
Genre: | Psychological fiction. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Evergreen Indiana.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Jefferson Co PL - Madison Main Branch | FICTION JACO (Text) | 39391006851271 | Fiction | Available | - |
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- Baker & Taylor
Fired from MoMA after an affair with her married boss, Elsa Fisher, angry, reckless and hell-bent of self-destruction, returns to Los Angeles where she joins some old friends on a trip to Catalina Island, putting the lives of those around her at risk. Original. - Baker & Taylor
"A novel about a young woman who loses her job and her boyfriend and spirals down a dark path of self-destruction that threatens to harm anyone close to her."-- - Baker & Taylor
After losing her job and boyfriend in one fell swoop, Elsa Fisher returns to Los Angeles where she is received with open arms by her college friends, even as she gives into her spiraling self-destructive behavior. - McMillan Palgrave
A magnetic, provocative debut novel chronicling a young womanâs downward spiral following the end of an affair
Elsa Fisher is headed for rock bottom. At least, thatâs her plan. She has just been fired from MoMA on the heels of an affair with her married boss, and she retreats to Los Angeles to blow her severance package on whatever it takes to numb the pain. Her abandoned crew of college friends (childhood friend Charlotte and her wayward husband, Jared; and Elsaâs ex-husband, Robby) receive her with open arms, and, thinking sheâs on vacation, a plan to celebrate their reunion on a booze-soaked sailing trip to Catalina Island.
But Elsa doesnât want to celebrate. She is lost, lonely, and full of rage, and only wants to sink as low as the drugs and alcohol will take her. On Catalina, her determined unraveling and recklessness expose painful memories and dark desires, putting everyone in the group at risk.
With the creeping menace of Patricia Highsmith and the bender-chic of Bret Easton Ellis, Liska Jacobs brings you inside the mind of an angry, reckless young woman hell-bent on destructionâevery page taut with the knowledge that Elsaâs path does not lead to a happy place. Catalina is a compulsive, deliciously dark exploration of beauty, love, and friendship, and the sometimes toxic desires that drive us.