Kamikaze Lust by Lauren Sander is is her standalone contemporary literary fiction novel with the obligatory journey of self-discovery in a somewhat satirical comedic version, as a young woman goes on a zany road trip through various places which touch her life, free for a limited time courtesy of publisher Akashic Books, who are generously running a holiday advent calendar promotion (their books are couponable at Kobo, BTW, and they do the excellent Akashic Noir mystery anthology series).
This won the 2000 Lambda Literary Award in the Small Press category.
Currently free until midnight December 14th directly @
the publisher's promotional blogpost (DRM-free ePub & Mobi available worldwide), and you can read more about the book on its
regular catalogue page.
Description
Kamikaze Lust takes the reader on an electrifying ride through the spectacle of life and death in millennial America. Smart, hardboiled, and humorous, the novel taps our current obsession with sex and death, sex and popular culture, sex and the written word, sex and pornography, sex and green M&Ms, and, of course, the perennial sex and love.