num_pages: 295
description: In a novel about drifting and reckless youth looking for a more permanent form of happiness, Whitney Otto transports us to San Francisco, a magical, fog-shrouded city suffused with possibility and restless energy. Her characters congregate night after night at a North Beach bar called the Youki Singe Tea Room, their lives conjoined by bonds of friendship and shared experience, and by the poignant realization that true ecstasy may be found only in surrendering oneself to someone or something else. A Collection of Beauties at the Height of Their Popularity explores the intricacies, the pain, and the rapture of human connection.
language: English
title: A Collection of Beauties at the Height of Their Popularity
titlecomplete: A Collection of Beauties at the Height of Their Popularity
genres: Literature, Literary Fiction, Novels, Asia, Fiction, Contemporary, Art
ratings_count: 430
publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks