The Hot One The Hot One

The Hot One

A Memoir of Friendship, Sex, and Murder

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Publisher Description

A true-crime, coming-of-age story with a tragic twist: a New York editor’s quest to uncover the truth about the brutal murder of her wild and seductive friend in a “riveting…and thoughtful examination of how we grow up and apart” (Cosmopolitan).

As girls growing up in rural New Jersey in the late 1980s, Ashley and Carolyn had everything in common: two outsiders who loved spending afternoons exploring the woods. Only when the girls attended different high schools did they begin to grow apart. While Carolyn struggled to fit in, Ashley quickly became a hot girl: popular, extroverted, and sexually precocious.

After high school, Carolyn entered college in New York City and Ashley ended up in Los Angeles, where she quit school to work as a stripper and an escort, dating actors and older men, and experimenting with drugs. The last time Ashley visited New York, Carolyn was shocked by how they had grown apart. One year later, Ashley was stabbed to death at age twenty-two in her Hollywood home.

“Original and engaging” (Kirkus Reviews), The Hot One is the story of Carolyn’s emotional quest to find out what really happened to her oldest friend. It’s a journey that takes her through the hills of Hollywood, into courtrooms in Los Angeles, to strip clubs in Las Vegas, and back to her own childhood memories as she tries to unravel why she and Ashley became so different. How did Ashley end up the overtly sexual risk-taker—the hot one—while Carolyn was seen as the smart one, the observer? Carolyn’s “memoir will shock and fascinate” (Booklist) readers as she explores the power of female friendships and pays tribute to the ones that stay with you long after they’re gone.

GENRE
Biographies & Memoirs
RELEASED
2017
August 1
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
256
Pages
PUBLISHER
Simon & Schuster
SELLER
Simon & Schuster Digital Sales LLC
SIZE
3.4
MB

Customer Reviews

Jersey Shore Girl 1014 ,

Childhoods

I was deeply moved by this book. It was well written and researched. It’s a brutal truth about the difficult relations between men and women, sexual and otherwise. It’s a portrait of friendships and childhoods, the law and a slow justice system. It’s fragile and tough, and unbelievably sad. It will leave an imprint on you long after you finish.

Quizkid61 ,

Not my cup of tea

I tried to relate to the main characters but couldn’t....I felt no connection at all.

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