Astrid Sees All (Compact Disc)

Astrid Sees All By Natalie Standiford, Emily Tremaine (Read by) Cover Image
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Astrid Sees All is the novel for everyone who has ever moved to a new city to reinvent themselves —and hit some bumps along the way. In a love letter to the East Village of Manhattan, the neighborhood’s grit, glamor, and romance feels palpable. The reader never stops rooting for these complex and compelling characters, despite their many missteps. What I wouldn’t give to party with Phoebe and her friends for a night at Plutonium!”
— Erin Neary, Book Club, New York, NY

Description


New York's last bohemia--the glittering, decadent downtown club scene of the 1980s--is the setting for this winning novel about a smart, vulnerable young woman taking a deep dive into her dark sideNew York, 1984. Twenty-two-year-old Phoebe Hayes is a young woman in search of excitement and adventure. But the recent death of her father has so devastated her that her mother wants her to remain home in Baltimore to recover. Phoebe wants to return to New York, not only to chase the glamorous life she so desperately craves but also to confront Ivan, the older man who painfully wronged her.With her best friend Carmen, she escapes to the East Village, disappearing into an underworld haunted by artists, It Girls, and lost souls trying to party their pain away. Carmen juggles her junkie-poet boyfriend and a sexy painter while, as Astrid the Star Girl, Phoebe tells fortunes in a nightclub and plots her revenge on Ivan.When the intoxicating brew of sex, drugs, and self-destruction leads Phoebe to betray her friend, Carmen disappears, and Phoebe begins an unstoppable descent into darkness. She may have a chance to save herself--and Carmen, if she can find her--but to do it she must face what's hiding in the shadows she has been running from--within her heart and in the dangerous midnight streets. A love letter to gritty 1980s New York City, Astrid Sees All is an irresistible, original novel about female friendship, sex, and romance and what it's like to be a young woman searching for an identity.


Product Details
ISBN: 9781797120461
ISBN-10: 1797120468
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Publication Date: April 6th, 2021
Language: English