Amanda Boyden delves into the darker corners of the human psyche in her writing, exploring complex character dynamics. Her style is raw and compelling, often touching on themes of desire, addiction, and the search for identity. Boyden crafts vivid, often unsettling, imagery that resonates with the reader long after the final page. Her works are a bold examination of the human experience.
This memoir is unflinching, raw, sometimes hilarious, sometimes painful-the self-portrait of a woman unafraid to scream to the universe: I survived this! Dog tails Boyden from childhood to adult heartbreak, from a devastating rape as a young woman to the crushing end of her marriage, destroyed by infidelity and another woman's pregnancy.
This memoir is unflinching, raw, sometimes hilarious, sometimes painful-the self-portrait of a woman unafraid to scream to the universe: I survived this! Dog tails Boyden from childhood to adult heartbreak, from a devastating rape as a young woman to the crushing end of her marriage, destroyed by infidelity and another woman's pregnancy.
From the author of the acclaimed debutPretty Little Dirtycomes a complex, seductive novel about race and culture, set in New Orleans. Babylon Rollingis a glittering, gritty, unflinching novel of five families living along an Uptown block in the year before Hurricane Katrina. Told in numerous voices, it explores what happens when forces collide in the boozy, humid city that care forgot. At once an exploration of ethnicity and a portrait of a city on the edge of annihilation,Babylon Rollingis a brave and masterful novel.