Here Kitty Kitty: A Novel

Lee is the consummate party girl, living a decidedly consequence-free existence. She has the right clothes-the Helmut Lang heels and vintage Dior dresses-the right job managing a stylish SoHo restaurant, the right shabby-chic apartment in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, and the right pager number to get the right drugs. She even has the right boyfriend-a wealthy Frenchman who bails her out of trouble whenever she teeters too close to the edge. Lee knows youth and beauty can only protect her from her wild life for so long. But when the lights go down at closing time, the energy of the city begins to pulse. It is a call she can't resist, and she follows it to backrooms and warehouse raves, to loft parties and after-hours clubs, fueled by the liquids and powders whose names begin to blur, pursuing the elusive thrills of the New York night. Libaire's voice, like her heroine, is tough, seductive, and hard-hitting, and she paints a city that only the young and reckless experience-a place where glamour and danger are just flip sides of the same thrilling coin.