The popular rediscovery of Eve Babitz continues with this very special reissue
of her novel, originally published in 1979, about a dreamy young girl moving
between the planets of Los Angeles and New York City.
We first meet Jacaranda in Los Angeles, a beach bum, part-time painter of
surfboards, sun-kissed and beautiful, semi-involved with a married man,
glittering among the pretty creatures, blithely drinking Pink Ladies with any
number of tycoons, unattached and unworried in the pleasurable mania of
California. We follow her as she rises from the mists to the discovery that
she's twenty-eight, jobless, with no sense of purpose; that her wild friendships
with Gilbert and