With or Without You
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Publisher Description
This novel about a violently obsessed fan is "part journal, part suicide note and part psychological suspense story" (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
Set in the late 1980s, and shifting between the points of view of an eighteen-year-old girl who is in prison for murdering a soap actress and the mother of the victim, this novel takes a dark look at celebrity and tabloid culture, neglectful parenting, and the damage that can arise from a desperate need for attention.
From a Lambda Literary Award–winning author, With or Without You is "a fearless book that captures perfectly the torment of modern-day adolescence, as well as the utter loneliness of obsession" (Nina Revoyr, author of Southland).
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Sanders's pulpy debut, Kamikaze Lust (winner of a 2000 Lambda Literary Award), the author skewered stereotypes of porn stars and lesbians while scrutinizing perceptions of moral values. Her vibrant, vigorous second novel is a sendup of America's obsession with pop culture, B-list celebrities and prison life, peopled by a cast of lonely, desperate characters whose only fault is that they love too much. In the summer of 1987, 18-year-old Lillian G. Speck catapults to tabloid fame after she shoots and kills Brooke Harrison, a soap star she has long worshipped. Narrated by Lillian from prison, the novel is part journal, part suicide note and part psychological suspense story, tracing Lillian's path from poor little rich kid to killer. Neglected by her heedless parents, who are caught up in the drug excesses of the 1980s, Lillian is a child with sociopathic tendencies who is desperate for love and attention. Her story is artfully juxtaposed with that of Brooke Harrison's mother, who reveals the seamy side of a Hollywood inhabited by plastic people who have too much money and can't tell the difference between reality and fiction. In lyrical, potent prose, Sanders navigates the terrain of loneliness, obsession and desperation with the same skillful precision as her vulnerable, calculating protagonist.
