Wonder Bread Summer PB - (P.S.) by Jessica Anya Blau (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A new comic novel, loosely based on "Alice in Wonderland," in which a collegestudent steals a Wonder Bread bag filled with cocaine and goes on the lam<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><strong>"Picaresque, properly funny, unpredictable and altogether irrepressible." --Nick Hornby, <em>The Believer</em></strong></p><p><strong>Jessica Anya Blau, author of <em>The Summer of Naked Swim Parties </em>and<em> Mary Jane</em>, delivers a darkly hilarious, heartbreaking coming-of-age novel with <em>The Wonder Bread Summer</em>.</strong></p><p>In <em>The Wonder Bread Summer</em>, loosely based on <em>Alice in Wonderland</em>, 20-year-old Allie Dodgson has adventures that rival those Alice had down the rabbit hole. Or those of Weeds' Nancy Botwin.</p><p>Allison is working at a dress shop to help pay for college. The dress shop turns out to be a front for drug dealers. And Allison ends up on the run--with a Wonder Bread bag full of cocaine.</p><p>With a hit man after her, Allison wants the help of her parents. But there's a problem: Her mom took off when Allison was eight; her dad moves so often Allison that doesn't even have his phone number....</p><p>Set in 1980s California, <em>The Wonder Bread Summer </em>is a wickedly funny and fresh caper that's sure to please fans of Christopher Moore, Carl Hiaasen, and Marcy Dermansky.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><p>It's 1983 in Berkeley, California. Twenty-year-old Allie Dodgson is a straitlaced college student working part-time at a dress shop to make ends meet. But when the shop turns out to be a front for a dangerous drug-dealing business, Allie finds herself on the lam, speeding toward Los Angeles in her best friend's Prelude with a Wonder Bread bag full of cocaine riding shotgun and a hit man named Vice Versa on her tail. You can't find a more thrilling summer read!</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"A book by Blau would be disappointing without pot smoking, hilarious and sometimes grungy sex, and bickering relatives."--<em>Boston Globe</em><br><br>"Raunchy, poignant, and triumphant in turn--and sometimes manages to be all three at the same time."--<em>Booklist</em><br><br>Blau's madcap chase through 1980s L.A. is over-the-top and...a liberal dose of dark humor and an oddly heart-warming ending add to the twisted ride.--<em>Publishers Weekly</em><br><br>"It's hard to recall a debut as warm, charming and comically satisfying as The Summer of Naked Swim Parties . . . Blau conveys Jamie's world with compelling insight and wit . . . [Blau's] sharp observation and affectionate humor [give] surprising depth to this shimmering novel."--<em>San Francisco Chronicle</em><br><br>"<i>The Wonder Bread Summer</i> is the best ever! It even made me a little jealous and that doesn't happen often."--Madison Smartt Bell<br><br>"In <i>The Wonder Bread Summer</i>, Jessica Anya Blau sends us tumblin down a rabbit hole of youthful mistakes and heartache, alongside the unsinkable Allie Dodgson. Coming of age has never been so wickedly thrilling."--Tania James, author of Aerogrammes and Other Stories<br><br>"Jessica Anya Blau returns with all the comedic powers of a master trickster."--Jessica Keener, author of the nationally-bestselling novel <i>Night Swim</i><br><br>"Jessica Anya Blau's <i>The Wonder Bread Summer</i> is a lightning strike of a novel, sexy and dangerous and aglow with adventure. Allie is a tenacious and deliciously complicated heroine, and it's impossible to resist the ride she takes you on."--Laura van den Berg, author of What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us<br><br>"Picaresque, properly funny, unpredictable and altogether irrepressible...[Blau] reminds me of [Charles] Portis in a lot of ways . . . [S]he has a steady nerve, as well as a wicked imagination, and she takes her craft seriously... Top-notch comic writing."--Nick Hornby, The Believer<br><br>"A fun read! Even before the buzzard hits the windshield, THE WONDER BREAD SUMMER will make you feel better about your worst summer vacation."--Christopher Moore, New York Times-bestselling author of Lamb and A Dirty Job<br><br>"Blau has crafted a totally uniqu coming of age story, wrapped in a road trip, with a drug caper center. It's a wild, exuberant novel, full of humor, heart, and a solid dose of bad behavior. I loved it."--Paula Bomer, author of 9 Months<br><br>"Jessica Anya blau has the gift of creating people we feel and know as familiar, and then showing us how much we don't know them at all."--Leora Skolkin-Smith, author of Hystera<br><br>"No one writes like Jessica Anya Blau. Funny, tender, and outrageous."--Michael Downs, author of The Greatest Show<br><br>"Often hilarious and lewd, and also sincere and moving, like the naughty Southern Californian soul mate of Nick Hornby."--Matthew Klam, author of Sam the Cat, and other stories<br><br>"This is as fast, fun, and outrageous a book as I've read in a long time. But beneath all the antics is a poignant story about racial identity, fathers and daughters, and coming of age in one totally messed-up decade."--Matthew Norman, author of Domestic Violets<br><br>"This novel is addictive! I was hooked the moment straight-arrow Allie steals a bread bag full of blow...You won't be able to look away."--Mary Kay Zuravelff, author of Man Alive!<br><br>"A rollicking, irreverent, sweep of a novel. Blau has written another shining, no-holds barred California heart breaker."--Deborah Reed, author of Carry Yourself Back To Me<br><br>"This book will make you laugh and cry in public. Jessica Anya Blau has written a soaring teenage lament, perfectly pitched, containing the single saddest and funniest line of seduction ever uttered."--Larry Doyle, author of I Love You, Beth Cooper<br><br>"Jessica Anya Blau has taken the story of a young woman's search for self and rendered it into a hilarious, cocaine-fueled thrill-ride. From its Tarantino-esque opening scene to its twisty final pages, THE WONDER BREAD SUMMER is an unrelenting delight."--Jon Michaud, author of When Tito Loved Clara<br>
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