While most people Trish?s age are listening to Led Zeppelin and watching Starsky and Hutch on TV, Trish spends the 1970s stealing and cheating to score. Heroin, pharmaceuticals, whatever she can get hold of. She travels from Florida to California and Mexico, hustling all the way, and always in the company of the wrong kind of men, whom she attracts wherever she goes. There?s not a rehab unit in the country that hasn?t thrown her out at least once. Far from under privileged, as the daughter of a concert violinist and a ...
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While most people Trish?s age are listening to Led Zeppelin and watching Starsky and Hutch on TV, Trish spends the 1970s stealing and cheating to score. Heroin, pharmaceuticals, whatever she can get hold of. She travels from Florida to California and Mexico, hustling all the way, and always in the company of the wrong kind of men, whom she attracts wherever she goes. There?s not a rehab unit in the country that hasn?t thrown her out at least once. Far from under privileged, as the daughter of a concert violinist and a college professor and poet, it is hard to understand what set her on this self-destructive path. What in her past shaped a future of ripping off drugstores and being sent to jail? Sweet Fire, the author?s first novel, grabs you by the throat and never lets you go.
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