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This is a new edition of the acclaimed 1988 murder mystery about a no-nonsense coffee-shop waitress in the East Village of New York who is nursing a broken heart after her girlfriend Delores leaves. Her attempts to find love again are funny, sexy and ultimately even violent.
When the lesbian narrator's girlfriend Delores defects to the bed and Tribeca loft of photographer Mary Sunshine, the unnamed narrator picks up a Priscilla Presley look-alike at a gay dance who leaves an address book and a gun in her lap, tempting her to take violent action. Later the ineffable Punkette, a part-time go-go dancer in Jersey with whom the narrator is infatuated, is found dead, and she becomes obsessed by the urge to find the killer, as well as with the desire to frighten Delores back to her bed by shooting Mary Sunshine. The story is complicated and enriched by Coco, a Puerto Rican beautician; Charlotte and Beatriz, an older couple who might have been threatened by Charlotte's affair with Punkette and either of whom might have murdered her; and by Daniel, a part-time, street-level drug dealer who seems to know more than he lets on about Punkette. Will our heroine get over Delores and find Punkette's murderer?
Paperback, 176 Pages, Orig. Publ. 1988, This Ed. Publ. 2013.
Author: Sarah Schulman