The Sabotage Cafe

Abandoning the Minneapolis punk scene of the 1980s after suffering an unspeakable trauma, Julia builds a tenuous new life in suburbia, until her own teenage daughter, Cheryl, returns to the city to reenact her mother's coming-of-age amid the drugs, sex, anarchy, and random violence of the urban back alleys. A first novel. By the author of Short People. 30,000 first printing.