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Squandering the Blue

Kate Braverman
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  • ISBN 9780349021188
  • Dimensions: 126 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 16 Jul 2026
  • Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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In twelve dazzling stories, Kate Braverman immerses us in the hypnotic glow and encroaching darkness of 80s Los Angeles. A group of women - sober, drunk, loved, lonely, death-defying - go to AA meetings, wreck cars, agonize over Christmas shopping, write in the Hawaiian jungle, picket a nuclear installation in Nevada, tour Eastern Europe with an alienated daughter, and dread being exiled by divorce to live in some shabby apartment. Unflinching and tender, told in Braverman's luscious and incantatory prose, these haunting snapshots form an interconnected portrait of longing, despair and redemption.

'If, as they say, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, it stands to reason that horror, too, lurks deep within the optic nerve. How else to explain the lushly menacing imagery in the poet and novelist Kate Braverman's latest book?' New York Times

'Braverman's Los Angeles is grittier than Eve Babitz's, lusher than Joan Didion's' LitHub
About Kate Braverman
A native of Los Angeles who grew up surrounded by the counterculture of San Francisco, KATE BRAVERMAN (1947 - 2019) was an astute observer of California's marginal spaces and a bold experimenter in form. Braverman was the author of four books of poetry, a collection of short stories, and four novels, including Lithium for Medea, Palm Latitudes, and The Incantation of Frida K. She won the Best American Short Story Award on multiple occasions and received the O. Henry Award for her story Tall Tales From the Mekong Delta in 1992. Her story "Mrs. Jordan's Summer Vacation" won Editor's Choice Raymond Carver Short Story Award.

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