"Twisted, devastating . . . A classic, blood-stained love letter to bohemian
NYC." --Craig Marks
When Rayya Elias was seven, her family fled their native Syria to settle in
Detroit. Bullied in school and rebelling against her traditional home-life,
Rayya turned her sights to fashion and music. She became a hairdresser and
started a band that played the club scene in the early 1980s before she moved to
New York at age twenty-three to further her musical career. She lived on the
Lower East Side at the height of the punk movement and had passionate affairs
with both sexes, but her casual drug use turned to