The Bitch Posse
Martha O’Connor raised some serious eyebrows with her debut novel, The Bitch Posse, which Washington Post Book World called “Compulsively readable…delicious and slightly macabre.” I happen to agree with the reviewer, as I found myself staying up after late-night breast-feedings about a year ago to read just one more chapter. A kind of Heathers for the intellectual set, The Bitch Posse follows three young women with a dangerous high-school secret into their rather dysfunctional adulthood.
Martha stops by today with her literary soundtrack:
1) the soundtrack to your latest book (what did you listen to while you were writing it?)
I listened to the Pixies’ Doolittle for the whole time I wrote this book. In fact, it’s even mentioned in the book as one of the best albums ever made (which it is)!
2) one song title (from any album) that would make a great book title
Anarchy in the UK would be a great title for a sort of postmodern, apocalyptic novel. Hey, maybe I’ll write it…
About the book:
“Astonishing and truly remarkable … tough, subtle, tense, authentic and very beautiful. If this isn’t really Alice Sebold, Donna Tartt or Barbara Vine writing under a pseudonym, then Martha O’Connor is a huge new talent who is already about as good as it gets.” –Lee Child, author of The Enemy
Book description:
These are the confessions of The Bitch Posse. Cherry, Rennie, and Amy were outcasts, rebels, and dreamers. And their friendship was so all-encompassing that some would call it dangerous. This is the story of three women-as seniors in high school and as women in their mid-thirties-who formed a bond in order to survive the pitfalls and perils of their lives. In the present day, one of them is a wife and mother-to-be, trying to live a “normal” life. One of them is a writer who engages in a number of self-destructive relationships. And one of them is in a mental hospital-and has been ever since that one fateful night fifteen years ago, when a heart-wrenching betrayal and the unraveling of relationships led them to a point of no return, where their actions triggered unimaginable consequences. These secrets have torn them apart, while inextricably binding them to one another. What happened to them? And can they survive their shared history, even today?
