White Lines
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- ¥880
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- ¥880
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At the heart of New York City's vibrant nightlife scene, a young teenager reigns as club kid royalty, holding the power to decide who enters the hottest venues.
“The gritty and emotionally charged story pulses like the rapid heartbeat of a girl in distress.”—Booklist
“Heartbreaking, occasionally hilarious, and always impossible to set aside.”—Nick Burd, author of The Vast Field of Ordinary
Seventeen-year-old Cat is living every teenager’s dream—her own apartment on New York’s Lower East Side. A struggling high school student by day, she’s club kid royalty by night, guarding the velvet ropes at some of the hottest clubs in the city. The night with its crazy, frenetic, high-inducing energy—the pulsing beat of the music, the radiant, joyful people and those seductive white lines that can ease all pain—this is when Cat truly lives. Because her daytime, when her real life occurs, is more nightmare than dream.
The sounds of the city grate against Cat’s nerves, she shrinks away from human touch, and she can barely think the words “I love you” even when she feels them. Having spent years suffering her mother’s emotional and physical abuse, and abandoned by her father, who’s found happiness in another woman, Cat is terrified and alone—unable to connect to anyone or anything. But then someone comes along who makes her want to stop escaping her life and actually live it. She’ll just need to summon the courage to confront the demons and take charge of a life already spinning dangerously out of control.
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At 17, Cat is on her own in New York City's East Village. She has fled the penthouse apartment where her abusive mother lives, and it's easier for Cat's emotionally distant father, who lives in Connecticut with his girlfriend, to pay Cat's rent downtown than to admit that his ex-wife is dangerously angry. Ensconced in the club-kid world of the late 1980s, Cat works the door at Tunnel nightclub and is increasingly dependent on cocaine to get her through long nights followed by days at her second-chance high school. Things pick up a bit at school when Julian transfers in, and Cat does have a few friends looking out for her, but she's being pulled deeper into the scene, especially now that her boss has started hitting on her. Banash's Elite series takes place on the Upper East Side, and she knows N.Y.C., but Cat doesn't feel like more than the sum of her many problems. When she finally pulls herself out of her downward spiral, it's not especially surprising: she's a familiar character and this is a familiar arc. Ages 14 up.
