April 7, 2021
 April 7, 2021 This Bookreporter.com Special Newsletter spotlights a book that we know people will be talking about this spring. Read more about it, and enter our Spring Preview Contest by Thursday, April 8th at noon ET for a chance to win one of five copies of ASTRID SEES ALL by Natalie Standiford, which is now available. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!  Today's Featured Book and Contest:  New York’s last bohemia --- the glittering, decadent downtown club scene of the 1980s --- is the setting for this brilliantly winning novel about a smart, vulnerable young woman taking a deep dive into her dark side, essential for fans of SWEETBITTER, "Fleabag" and books by Patti Smith. New York, 1984: Twenty-two-year-old Phoebe Hayes is a young woman in search of excitement and adventure. But the recent death of her father has so devastated her that her mother wants her to remain home in Baltimore to recover. Phoebe wants to return to New York, not only to chase the glamorous life she so desperately craves but also to confront Ivan, the older man who painfully wronged her. With her best friend Carmen, she escapes to the East Village, disappearing into an underworld haunted by artists, It Girls and lost souls trying to party their pain away. Carmen juggles her junkie-poet boyfriend and a sexy painter, while, as Astrid the Star Girl, Phoebe tells fortunes in a nightclub and plots her revenge on Ivan. When the intoxicating brew of sex, drugs and self-destruction leads Phoebe to betray her friend, Carmen disappears, and Phoebe begins an unstoppable descent into darkness. She may have a chance to save herself --- and Carmen, if she can find her. But to do it, she must face what’s hiding in the shadows she’s been running from --- within her heart and in the dangerous midnight streets. A love letter to gritty 1980s New York City, ASTRID SEES ALL is an irresistible, original novel about female friendship, sex and romance, and what it’s like to be a young woman searching for an identity. Click here to enter the contest by noon ET This is a special newsletter for our Spring Preview contests, which will mail on select days through April 22nd. This newsletter is separate from our weekly Bookreporter.com newsletter, which mails every Friday. You can subscribe to that newsletter here. Please visit the other websites in TheBookReportNetwork.com: ReadingGroupGuides.com and AuthorsOnTheWeb.com. |
