内容简介
At fifteen, sick of her unbearable and increasingly dangeroushome life, Janice Erlbaum walked out of her family’s Brooklynapartment and didn’t look back. From her first frightening night ata shelter, Janice knew she was in over her head. She was beaten up,shaken down, and nearly stabbed by a pregnant girl. But it wasstill better than living at home. As Janice slipped further intostreet life, she nevertheless attended high school, harboredcrushes, and even played the lead in the spring musical. She alsoroamed the streets, clubs, bars, and parks of New York City withher two best girlfriends, on the prowl for hard drugs and boys onskateboards. Together they scored coke at Danceteria, smoked angeldust in East Village squats, commiserated over their crazy mothers,and slept with one another’s boyfriends on a regular basis.
A wry, mesmerizing portrait of being underprivileged, underage, andunderdressed in 1980s New York City, Girlbomb provides anunflinching look at street life, survival sex, female friendships,and first loves.
A wry, mesmerizing portrait of being underprivileged, underage, andunderdressed in 1980s New York City, Girlbomb provides anunflinching look at street life, survival sex, female friendships,and first loves.