A portrait of a young girl in the glorious wasteland of 1990s Los Angeles, Fade Into You recalls the hormonal haze and urgency of adolescence. High school junior Nikki Darling alternates between cutting class and getting high, falling into drugs, crushes, and counterculture to figure out how she fits into the world. Running increasingly wild with other angst-ridden outcasts, she pushes herself to the edge only to find herself trapped in the cyclical violence of growing up female. Written in dreamy, subterranean prose, this novel captures the reckless defiance and fragility of girlhood.
"A coming-of-age story set in the dreamy wasteland of nineties Los Angeles, Fade Into You hypnotizes with its poetry and slang, the edgy mystery of girl friendships and skater crushes, overworked and unavailable parents, the uselessness of education and crucial importance of gossip. Nikki Darling shows us the real world, wrapped in a stoner haze, through the eyes of a girl on the cusp of sinking o
