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.

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.