{"title":"Jessica Hagedorn","description":"Jessica Hagedorn is the author of the novels Dogeaters and The Gangster of Love, Dream Jungle, and a collection of poetry and short fiction, Danger and Beauty.","products":[{"product_id":"toxicology-paperback","title":"Toxicology - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Highly entertaining . . . [Hagedorn] is an exceptional storyteller.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA bold new novel about the intersection of art, love, fame, and money from the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eDogeaters\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJessica Hagedorn's ferociously entertaining new novel centers on two women who are neighbors in Manhattan's West Village: Mimi Smith, a filmmaker whose only screen credit is a notorious low-budget slasher movie, and Eleanor Delacroix, a legendary, scandalous literary figure now nearing eighty. Their personal and artistic lives begin to converge in unexpected ways as Eleanor grieves over the death of her longtime lover, the renowned painter Yvonne Wilder, and as Mimi confronts the challenges presented by the mysterious disappearance of her boyfriend, by her newly sober if still somewhat loopy brother, and by her wayward teenage daughter. \u003ci\u003eToxicology\u003c\/i\u003e is a fearless, playful, and savagely funny novel about the collision of art, fame, money, love, desire, and mortality.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50103973576927,"sku":"9780143120520","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/pqEmoGPOJc9780143120520.webp?v=1781099848"},{"product_id":"the-gangster-of-love-paperback","title":"The Gangster of Love - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Gangster of Love \u003c\/i\u003eis elegant and smart, deftly capturing the pain of leaving a country behind and the struggle to adapt to a new one.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom celebrated novelist Jessica Hagedorn, an electrifying novel about a Filipino-American family navigating a culture of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRocky Rivera arrives in the U.S. from the Philippines the year that Jimi Hendrix dies. So begins a blazing coming-of-age story suffused with the tensions of immigration that finds Rocky moving from the counterculture of 1960s San Francisco to the extravagant 1980s Manhattan music scene. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Gangster of Love\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of the Rivera family as they make their new life in the States, all the while haunted by the memory of the father and the homeland they left behind. Among its members are Rocky's haughty mother, who has impulsively left her father; Voltaire, her brother, prone to heavy depression and odd friendships with strangers; and Rocky herself, unsure about sex and worshipful of her boyfriend, the guitar-playing Elvis Chang, who must learn to accept reality amidst the myths and lures of American success and idolatry.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50104756469983,"sku":"9780140159707","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/NWqCDMsiR79780140159707.webp?v=1781111253"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/jessica-hagedorn.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}