Pretty Little Dirty: A Novel - Softcover

"A glorious, modern, satirical and funny reimagining of the myth of Cupid and Psyche. . . . Boyden is poetic with her prose, without being purple, and her short sentences read like stab wounds, puncturing opportunities for pretense." --San Francisco Chronicle

"Pretty Little Dirty takes a classic coming-of-age tale and turns it inside out, then gives it a few kicks in the head for good measure. Funny, sexy, inventively told, and scary as hell--a gutsy debut."
-Dani Shapiro, author of Family History

"Boyden cracks open the vulnerable world of the adolescent girl today. Racy, dangerous and very captivating, Pretty Little Dirty paints a hypnotic portrait of two girls spinning perilously out of control."
-Colleen Curran, author of Whores on the Hill

"Amanda Boyden's white-hot prose surprises and scorches the reader with her disarming candor about sexual hunger, friendship compromised by envy, and ambition lacking focus."
-Fredrick Barton, author of A House Divided, winner of The William Faulkner Prize

Lisa escapes her own troubled girlhood into the lives of the family of her best friend, Celeste Diamond, embarking on a complex friendship that takes both girls from their suburban life into the complexities of male-female relationships, experimentation, self-destruction, and freedom. Original. 35,000 first printing.