The Sabotage Cafe
By Joshua Furst
(Vintage, Paperback, 9780375714085, 272pp.)
Publication Date: July 8, 2008
Other Editions of This Title: Google eBook, Hardcover
Categories: Literary
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As a teenager in the 1980s punk scene, Julia suffered an unspeakable trauma.Years later, she has made a new life for herself in the suburbs, desperately working to maintain a sense of normalcy.But when Julia's sixteen-year-old daughter, Cheryl, goes missing, Julia is forced to envision her every move. From the city's back alleys to the abandoned Sabotage Café, Julia watches her daughter retrace her own coming-of-age, a mélange of sex, drugs, and random acts of violence.
Joshua Furst is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and has been the recipient of a Michener Fellowship, the Chicago Tribune’s Nelson Algren Award and fellowships from The MacDowell Colony and Ledig House. He lives in New York City, where he teaches at the Pratt Institute.
"Furst is an impressively sharp, compassionate and morally scrupulous anatomist of human relationships…. His narrator has a haunting authority." —The New York Times Book Review“Should not be missed by anyone who has an adolescent or who has been one. . . . A kind of brick, hurled at a Starbucks window, but much more dangerous in the end.”—Minneapolis Star-Tribune "Joshua Furst [is] in full control of his psychologically complex material, with a tale of 'emotional bondage' as chilling as it is heartbreakingly real." —O, The Oprah Magazine"Remarkable. . . . Manages to capture both the clear heartache of a mother whose child has left home and the fuzzy logic of a mind misled by mental illness. . . . Furst writes with a diction that tugs at the heartstrings." —The Washington Times
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