<B>“Perceptive and witty—like a Sally Rooney novel set in Southern California.” </B>—<B><I>Star Tribune </I></B><B>(Minneapolis)</B><BR><BR><B>“It’s this author’s best work yet. A Sapphic roller-coaster ride.” —<I>Kirkus Reviews</I> (starred review</B>)<BR><BR><b>A controversial LA author attempts to revive her career and finally find true love in this hilarious nod to 1950s lesbian pulp fiction.</b><BR><BR>Having recently moved both herself and her formidable perfume bottle collection into a tiny bungalow in Los Angeles, mid-list author Astrid Dahl finds herself back in the Zoom writer’s group she cofounded, Sapphic Scribes, after an incident that leaves her and her career <I>lightly</I> canceled. But she temporarily forgets all that by throwing herself into a few sexy distractions—like Ivy, a grad student researching 1950s lesbian pulp who smells like metallic orchids, or her new neighbor, Penelope, who smells like pat