Beat Girl is a forthcoming novel from Beatdom Books. It will go on sale in 2027.
About the Book
In 1942, Edie Parker, a Detroit debutante her mother considered “too wild,” is exiled to New York City, where “too wild” is just right. There she meets a young Jack Kerouac, who has just quit college to devote himself to writing. Their love affair is fireworks from the start. Soon, Edie pulls intellectual ruffians Lucien Carr, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs into her orbit, forming the group that America would call “The Beats.” Edie and her boys tumble headlong into sex, drugs, crime, obsession, and even murder. After Edie and Jack rush into a hasty marriage to get him out of jail, everything falls to pieces. Yet their love for each other endures, even after Jack writes On the Road and is consumed by fame that ultimately destroys him. Beat Girl is Edie Parker’s chance to have her say about the boys’ club she created and readers will finally meet this unforgettable woman: a strong, charismatic free spirit with an endless lust for life and love.
About the Author
Michael Zadoorian is the critically praised author of The Leisure Seeker (William Morrow)—basis for the Sony Pictures Classics film starring Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland. His other books are Second Hand (W.W. Norton), Beautiful Music (Akashic) The Narcissism of Small Differences (Akashic), and the story collection The Lost Tiki Palaces of Detroit (Wayne State University Press).
Zadoorian is a recipient of 2022 Michigan Author Award, as well as a Kresge Artist Fellowship in the Literary Arts, the Columbia University Anahid Literary Award, the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award, the GLIBA Great Lakes Great Reads Award, and two Michigan Notable Book Awards. His fiction and essays have appeared in the Literary Review, Beloit Fiction Journal, American Short Fiction, North American Review, The Huffington Post, Lit Hub and others. His work has been translated into over twenty-five languages worldwide.
Pre-Order
The book will be released in 2027. Pre-order your copy via Bookshop or Amazon.
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