Beautiful Garbage: A Novel

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Fresh out of her teens, Jodi Plum leaves suburbia for Manhattan's glam and gritty art scene and quickly becomes a rising starbut when a skeleton from her past surfaces, her dream life crashes to a halt, and she slips into a world of parties, drugs, and high-class prostitution.

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An alluring story of New York nightlife and its seedy players.
Cat Marnell, VICE columnist

Equal parts Patti Smiths Just Kids and The Diary of Anas Nin, Beautiful Garbage is a voyeuristic panorama of the vice and vanity of the downtown art scene in the 1980s.
Ivy Pochoda, author of The Art of Disappearing and Visitation Street

Beautiful Garbage offers up one womans tour of duty of a New York City consumed by art, sex, and ambition. By turns passionate, cruel, shocking, and engrossing, this is a novel steeped in the lure of glamour and transformation the Big Apples always had to offer.
Rachel Kramer Bussel, editor of Women in Lust and Fast Girls

Beautiful, yes. Garbage, no. Just a captivating story of art, women, friendship, drugs, and self-destruction set against the glittery backdrop of a vanished Manhattan.
Elisa Albert, author of The Book of Dahlia

Beautiful Garbage combines the page-turning ease of a beach read with a polished and ambitious literary tone. As challenging and unconventional as its heroine, Jodi Plum, the book falls into a heritage that includes Plath and Edie Sedgwick, and yet is freshly and con dently dependent on neither.
Ruth Fowler, author of Girl, Undressed

We have all heard the phrase one man's garbage is another's treasure. Beautiful Garbage happens to be everyones treasure. To read this book is to listen to that gritty voice in your own head that keeps repeating, DO IT.
Jules Kim, Creator and Owner of Bijules Jewelry

Author Bio

A Brooklyn native, Jill Di Donato writes a sex column for The Huffington Post. This is her debut novel. ;