• Barbara the Slut and Other People

  • By: Lauren Holmes
  • Narrated by: Jorjeana Marie
  • Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
  • 3.2 out of 5 stars (47 ratings)

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Barbara the Slut and Other People

By: Lauren Holmes
Narrated by: Jorjeana Marie
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Publisher's summary

Fearless, candid, and incredibly funny, Lauren Holmes is a newcomer who writes like a master. She tackles eros and intimacy with a deceptively light touch, a keen awareness of how their nervous systems tangle and sometimes short-circuit, and a genius for revealing our most vulnerable, spirited selves.

In "Desert Hearts", a woman takes a job selling sex toys in San Francisco rather than embark on the law career she pursued only for the sake of her father. In "Pearl and the Swiss Guy Fall in Love", a woman realizes she much prefers the company of her pit bull - and herself - to the neurotic foreign fling who won't decamp from her apartment. In "How Am I Supposed to Talk to You?" a daughter hauls a suitcase of lingerie to Mexico for her flighty, estranged mother to resell there, wondering whether her personal mission - to come out - is worth the same effort. And in "Barbara the Slut", a young woman with an autistic brother, a Princeton acceptance letter, and a love of sex navigates her high school's toxic, slut-shaming culture with open eyes.

With heart, sass, and pitch-perfect characters, Barbara the Slut is a head-turning debut from a writer with a limitless career before her.

©2015 Lauren Holmes (P)2015 Tantor

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"A first-rate first collection from a young writer you'll want to hear more from." ( Kirkus)

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This was a book club choice and in my opinion the worst ever selected. Narrator did a good job but the stories were pointless, poorly written and left me with the urge to shout, "what was she thinking?!"

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