num_pages: 272
description: A fresh honest and darkly funny debut collection about family friends and lovers and the flaws that make us most human.Fearless candid and incredibly funny Lauren Holmes is a newcomer who writes like a master. She tackles eros and intimacy with a deceptively light touch a keen awareness of how their nervous systems tangle and sometimes short-circuit and a genius for revealing our most vulnerable spirited selves. In Desert Hearts a woman takes a job selling sex toys in San Francisco rather than embark on the law career she pursued only for the sake of her father. In Pearl and the Swiss Guy Fall in Love a woman realizes she much prefers the company of her pit bulland herselfto the neurotic foreign fling who wont decamp from her apartment. In How Am I Supposed to Talk to You? a daughter hauls a suitcase of lingerie to Mexico for her flighty estranged mother to resell there wondering whether her personal missionto come outis worth the same effort. And in Barbara the Slut a young woman with an autistic brother a Princeton acceptance letter and a love of sex navigates her high schools toxic slut-shaming culture with open eyes. With heart sass and pitch-perfect characters Barbara the Slut is a head-turning debut from a writer with a limitless career before her.
language: English
title: Barbara the Slut and Other People
publisher: Riverhead Books