Amy Reed: Beautiful

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Come out for a night of readings celebrating rebellious women. Described as a latter-day Go Ask Alice, Beautiful is Amy Reed's debut young adult novel about a young girl who trades her good-girl existence for a swift downward spiral tinged with drugs and abuse. When Cassie moves from the tiny town where she has always lived to a suburb of Seattle, she is determined to leave her boring, good-girl existence behind. Swept into a world of illicit parties and social landmines, she sheds her virginity, embraces the numbness she feels from the drugs, and floats through it all, knowing that she is now called beautiful. She ignores the dangers of her fast-paced life…but she can’t sidestep the secrets and the cruelty.

Amy Reed's short work has been published in journals such as Kitchen Sink, Contrary, and Fiction. She grew up around Seattle, received her MFA from New College of California, and currently lives in Oakland. Beautiful is her first novel.

San Francisco-based Performance Poet Daphne Gottlieb stitches together the ivory tower and the gutter just using her tongue. She is the editor of Fucking Daphne: Mostly True Stories and Fictions and Homewrecker: An Adultery Reader, as well as the author of the poetry books Kissing Dead Girls, Final Girl, Why Things Burn and Pelt, as well as the graphic novel Jokes and the Unconscious with artist Diane DiMassa.

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