Magic America: Coming of Age in an Altered State - Softcover

Hope lives in an alternative Trenton, New Jersey of the 1980s where radioactive cats, congenital tattoos, biker angels, cocky fairy godmothers and the determination to survive another day are all that stand between her family and the creeping chemical forces of LoboChem, a manufacturer willing to destroy all that is beautiful for the sake of a profit. Magic America is a story about coming of age in fluorescent, urbo-suburban, magic-realism America. Dust off your Wigwams and your high-tops, your banana clips and Aquanet, for a trip through the streets and skies of a Garden State where love triumphs over fear, faith is what you die with and family is who you ride with.

C.E. Medford grew up in New York and New Jersey and now lives in London with her husband and son. She received a B.A. in Psychology from Rutgers University and an M.A. in Creative Writing from Birkbeck, University of London. Magic America is her first novel.