Dimensions
145 x 224 x 29mm
At thirteen everyone can see Kath's got her eye on bigger things than provincial Fresno can offer. Years in the glamourous chill of an East Coast prep school introduce her to a razor sense of social distinction, cocaine 'so good it's pink', and an indispensable best friend. As she navigates her twenties there are fourteen-dollar cocktails but no money for groceries; unsuitable men of enormous charm, and unsuitable jobs of no charm at all; travelling for love and travelling with mother and a yearning for a transformation from someone of promise into someone of genius.
In this witty and affecting debut, fiction winks at real life: Katherine Taylor is its muddled heroine, and also its author. Written with an unerring sense of the delights and malaises of a generation 'Rules for Saying Goodbye' is about breaking down and putting yourself back together again.