America the Beautiful

(, New edition)

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America Throne is rebuilding her life after her boyfriend Jasper unceremoniously dumps her - by fax. Perhaps not surprisingly, America temporarily descends into a self-destructive cycle of recriminations and increasingly threatening phone calls to her recalcitrant ex. Luckily her rather more practical best friend, Sadie, is on hand to kick America back into shape. This being California, America's 'journey back to wholeness' involves some not entirely conventional twists and turns. This is a trip to the wilder shores of West Coast weirdness, infused with the engaging wit and exhilarating emotional honesty of a brilliant and original new writer.

Reviews

Brilliant - Telegraph

Highly entertaining' - Observer

Her outstanding debut novel - Express

Moon has an engaging and very hippie-influenced prose style. If it were a canvas it would be filled with brighly coloured natural details which are undercut by an all-redeeming humour - Independent

Zappa's sharp, unforgiving wit makes for a funny and surprisingly entertaining read - Daily Mail

America the Beautiful is a rush: the anticipated wallowing is replaced by narrative drive; the bullshit by humour; the self-indulgence by sharp insight. - Standard

Snappy, readable first novel - Independent On Sunday

Zappa's book is a witty and honest quest of a young woman trying to find her spiritual home - Belfast Telegraph

Author Bio

Moon Unit Zappa lives in Los Angeles, California, in the street where she was born. When she isn t writing, she can be found performing her own material in comedy venues. She is also an accomplished actor whose television appearances include Roseanne and Murder One.