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In Bad Habits, twenty-five-year-old graphic artist Cristy Road
takes us on an uncensored and largely autobiographical tour of an
underground world, one full of wild characters and personal
revolutions. We journey through New York City's dive bars, we share
drugs in dark bathrooms, and we spend long nights in strange beds.
Road's street psychopharmacology results in experiences that are
both revelatory and tragic. In her circle, drugs are cheap,
ubiquitous, and sometimes feel like the only way out. Writing in a
tradition of some of the finest transgressive authors, such as Jean
Genet, William S. Burroughs, and Kathy Acker, Road takes us deep
inside the damaged soul and psyche of her young protagonist with
language as violent as the street and sex as raw as the language:
"I'm just some bipolar junkie who happened to have been sexually
assaulted once or twice, and later mind-fucked by some crass
romantic I shouldn't have trusted anyway." Somewhere along this
hyperreal tour, our heroine learns to leave her bad habits behind
and emerge stronger and more independent, clean and open to love.
She's still punk, but she's punk by her own rules--and she finds
that life can be about much more than mere survival.
Every teenager has a moment of transformation. For some it comes in
the form of a kiss or a traumatic experience, but for Cristy C.
Road it was the discovery of punk music.
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