The Gin Closet 1st Edition Leslie Jamison by Leslie Jamison 9781439157879, 9781439153215, 1439157871, 1439153213, 2009020264 instant download after payment.

In the beginning, there was Tilly: fabulous & free, outrageous & untamable, vulnerable & terrified. Was it the 60s that did her wrong, or the drugs, or the men, or was it the middle-class upbringing she couldn't abide? As a young woman, she flees home for the hollow neon underworld of Nevada, looking for pure souls & finding nothing but bad habits. She stays away for decades, working the streets & worse, eventually drinking herself to the brink of death in the middle of the desert. One day, after Tilly has spent nearly 30 years without a family, her niece shows up on the doorstep of her dusty trailer. Stella has been leading her own life of empty promise in NYC. She makes her living booking Botox appointments & national-media appearances for a famous (& famously neurotic) "inspirational" writer by day; she complains about her job at warehouse parties in remote boroughs by night; she waits for her married lover to make time in his schedule to screw her over, softly; & she takes care of her ailing grandmother in Connecticut. Before Stella's grandmother dies, she tells Stella the truth about Tilly, her runaway daughter, & Stella decides to give up the vast & penetrating loneliness of the city to find this lost woman the family had never mentioned. 

The Gin Closet unravels the strange & powerful intimacy that forms between Tilly & Stella as they move to SF to make a home with Abe, Tilly's overworked & elusive son. Shifting between the perspectives of both women, the narrative documents the construction of a fragile triangle that eventually breaks under its own weight. With an uncanny ear for dialogue & a witty, unflinching candor about sex, love, & power, Leslie Jamison reminds us that no matter how unexpected its turns are,