Still Alive

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(252 252 252 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A hero's journey through a dying empire. On the Road for a beaten generation.</span><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> After V meets Lex a butch painter at an underground punk show they enter a multi-year relationship that ranges from Portland Oregon to New York City and finally Los Angeles with V's family of origin ever interjecting with dysfunction and neediness. Her brother has retreated into a hodgepodge of Eastern religiosity and their mother's addictions are worsening. Meanwhile her father is busy building a new family as sunny as V's childhood was grim. Leroy V's gay best friend has chosen rural peace but V can't find the same satisfaction - anywhere. </span><span style=background-color: rgba(252 252 252 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Ever in search of love meaning and temp work V hurtles across the US resisting the store-bought narratives of mainstream life to create a freedom all her own.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>With heady pacing a recursive structure and sharp prose STILL ALIVE renders the much-maligned adult millennial experience with affection and profundity. In this story as in life there's no cure for living. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(7 7 7 1)>This is what it's like when sometime between getting out of bed and returning to it you encounter a work of art. This is what it's like when someone else's truth reads like your own. This is what it's like to feel less alone.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(7 7 7 1)><span>???</span>-Guillermo Stitch author of </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(7 7 7 1)>Lake of Urine</em></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>This is a book for wanderers and searchers a love story with all of the attendant cliches wadded into a ball and tossed overboard. LJ Pemberton has written a quarter-life raft for the dissatisfied and unmoored. </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Still Alive </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>is punch-drunk and furious listless and wondrous brilliantly funny and sexy as hell. I devoured it. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>?</span><span style=color: rgba(7 7 7 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>-</span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Hilary Leichter author of </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Temporary </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>and </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Terrace Story</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> </span></p>