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Jen Beagin's quirky, moving, "frank & unflinching" (Josh Ferris) debut novel introduces an unforgettable character, Mona—almost twenty-four, emotionally adrift, & cleaning houses to get by. Handing out clean needles to drug addicts, she falls for a recipient she calls Mr. Disgusting, who proceeds to break her heart in unimaginable ways.  

In search of healing, Mona decamps to Taos, New Mexico, for a fresh start, where she finds a community of seekers & cast-offs, all of whom have one or two things to teach her—the pajama-wearing, blissed-out New Agers, the slightly creepy client with peculiar tastes in controlled substances, the psychic who might really be psychic. But always lurking just beneath the surface are her memories of growing up in a chaotic, destructive family from which she’s trying to disentangle herself, & the larger legacy of the past.

Jen Beagin holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of California, Irvine (UCI), & is a recipient of a Whiting Award in fiction. Her first novel Pretend I’m Dead was shortlisted for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize & Vacuum in the Dark was shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic fiction. She is also the author of Big Swiss. She lives in Hudson, New York.