Her entry begins:I have a little stash of books I’m gleefully reading now. It’s summertime, and it’s too hot to do anything else! I just finished Eve Babitz’s Slow Days, Fast Company, which begins with a brilliant introduction by Matthew Specktor. Why oh why did it take me so long to find Eve? From the lavender jacaranda to the honest talk about love and sex, this book...[read on]About White Fur, from the publisher:
A stunning star-crossed love story set against the glitz and grit of 1980s New York CityVisit Jardine Libaire's website.
When Elise Perez meets Jamey Hyde on a desolate winter afternoon, fate implodes, and neither of their lives will ever be the same. Although they are next-door neighbors in New Haven, they come from different worlds. Elise grew up in a housing project without a father and didn’t graduate from high school; Jamey is a junior at Yale, heir to a private investment bank fortune and beholden to high family expectations. Nevertheless, theattraction is instant, and what starts out as sexual obsession turns into something greater, stranger, and impossible to ignore.
The unlikely couple moves to Manhattan in hopes of forging an adult life together, but Jamey’s family intervenes in desperation, and the consequences of staying together are suddenly severe. And when a night out with old friends takes a shocking turn, Jamey and Elise find themselves fighting not just for their love, but also for their lives.
White Fur follows these indelible characters on their wild race through Newport mansions and downtown NYC nightspots, SoHo bars and WASP-establishment yacht clubs, through bedrooms and hospital rooms, as they explore, love, play, and suffer. Jardine Libaire combines the electricity of Less Than Zero with the timeless intensity of Romeo and Juliet in this searing, gorgeously written novel that perfectly captures the ferocity of young love.
Writers Read: Jardine Libaire.
--Marshal Zeringue
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