A Girl Like Sugar
A Novel by emily pohl-weary
Published by McGilligan Books
"Deadpan prose that draws on a messy bedroom of cultural references. Crisp, intelligent and alert, like an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer directed by John Waters."
--Michael Turner (author of Hard Core Logo)
Award-winning author Emily Pohl-Weary brings us contemporary heroine Sugar Jones in a sexy and spirited coming of age tale.
After Sugar’s rock star boyfriend dies, she spends sleepless nights in her basement apartment, watching Parker Posey movies and talking to his ghost.
With her New Age mother and her blue-haired best friend hounding her to get a job, Sugar digs herself out and connects with an eclectic cast of urban heroes.
Camcorder in hand, Sugar stands up to her demons -- real and imagined -- and shakes the awful-sweet boy she loved.
Read a draft of the first chapter.
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Praise for A Girl Like Sugar
"An edgy coming-of-age story. The strength of the book is Pohl-Weary’s winning prose and the spunky (if at times world-weary) first person voice of her protagonist."--Fantasy & Science Fiction Magazine
"Pohl-Weary's writing is strong... Sugar convincingly straddles disaffection and pain, strength and vulnerability, hipness and ordinariness."
--Fourth-Rate Reader
"I often found myself taking hits from this book like it was pure caffeine or nicotine."
--Popmatters.com
"Emily Pohl-Weary actually makes sex with a dead person seem cute, as only she could. A tale of girl-power life-awakening."
--Taddle Creek Magazine
"In a literary world packed with dull Sex-in-the-Citizens and shopaholics, Emily Pohl-Weary’s A Girl Like Sugar is an exciting and shocking break from the mainstream."
--Gateway
"Wonderfully explicit" and "quietly redemptive."
--Globe and Mail
"Emily Pohl-Weary gets my vote as the new, sleazy, Judy Blume."
--The Uniter
"Sugar Jones is gutsy enough to make it through the netherworld and back to the land of the living."
--Quill & Quire
"A comic bildungsroman laced with youth-culture ennui, this hipster fairy tale has a happy ending that finds Pohl-Weary's heroine finally free of self-loathing and poised on the brink of adulthood."
--Chicago Reader
"Perhaps all novels should have suggested soundtracks."
--Peterborough Examiner
"Pohl-Weary [captures] what it feels like to figure out who you are in a world steered by consumerism, social standards and impossible expectations. For
many of us, a girl like Sugar is a real-life hero."
--Shameless Magazine
"The refreshing and rare perspective of a troubled youth in a fast-paced city."
--Young People's Press
"Emily Pohl-Weary's first novel crackles with pop."
--See Magazine
"Racy enough to keep you turning the pages, but witty enough to legitimize it."
--Fashion18
"The discussion of music and video and the like are natural as character development."
--Bibliotravel.com
"A fresh addition to the world of chick-lit and one of the better tales of twentysomething angst and female empowerment."
--Winnipeg Free Press
"Sugar is the charming and infectious creation of a savvy observer and disturber of popular culture."
--Camilla Gibb (author of Mouthing the Words)
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Buy a girl like sugar
Canadian Orders: $24 (includes postage)International Orders: $24 U.S. (includes postage)
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Film rights
Film and television rights for A Girl Like Sugar have been optioned by Canadian producer Kerry Young. For more information, contact Debbie Wood at Westwood Creative Artists: (416) 964-3302 ext. 233, 94 Harbord Street, Toronto, ON M5S 1G6.______
Contact the Publisher
E-mail. Tel: 416-538-0547, Fax: 416-538-0547.
www.mcgilliganbooks.com.
Distributed by University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1894692101 | $24.95
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