Category — Whores on the Hill

The sights, the sounds.

We stood, the three of us, Astrid, Juli and me, between the ping pong table and the wet bar in the basement of somebody’s house.  Astrid tapped her serrated nose with one black fingernail, the dimpled nose that gave her face a feral, cat-like expression.  She flipped up her collar, preppie-style, and eyed a dark-looking, tough guy sucking a shot of Jagermeister off an ice luge dripping in the utility sink.

We were fifteen.  The world hadn’t even started for us yet, only Astrid taught us to look at the world slant-wise.  She cut her wet, almond-shaped eyes at Jagermeister kid and said, “Okay, sure.  Like, that’s him.” [Read more →]

Whores on the Hill is the story of three girls — Astrid, Juli and Thisbe — growing up at the last all-girls’ school in Milwaukee.

Whores on the Hill was selected as a May Must Read by Glamour magazine. It was picked by NPR as a “Best Debut.” The Boston Globe called it
“…an honest, poignant, beautifully written story about teenage sex, from
a young woman’s point of view.”

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