The Final Appearance of America's Girl Next Door

Peter Pan lost his shadow. Gogol lost his mind. Comedian and sizzling hot actress Ellen Gregory, the woman David Letterman dubbed 'America's Favorite Girl Next Door,' has lost control of her narrative. The woman she sees on TV screens seems to her entirely more authentic than the actual flesh and blood version.

And so but worse, a stalker steals her sense of home. For Ellen, life has become a Mobius strip by the time she meets Michael Webster, a complete geek. Except even worse, Michael dies. And so what's a girl to do when her lifelong romance with her own ambition doesn't quite work out the way she hoped, and the ONE man, the one to-die-for person she's met does?

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What People Are Saying:

This blurb can't capture my admiration, or how entertaining, thought-provoking and beautiful I found The Final Appearance of America's Girl Next Door. It is like no novel you've read. At the same time it is an extended and leisurely meditation on all things related to the human condition, it is a roller-coaster of psychological suspense.  Ellen Gregory and her fellow-characters are so alive as to seem uncanny, and yet larger than life.  This novel is full of realism and archetypal resonance.  The writing, in is precision, is poetic and casual at once.  "It's a flashy business compiling algorithms."  Stephen Stark has as much in common, as a writer, with Cormac McCarthy as he does with James Ellroy.  The result is a novel that is simultaneously a page-turner and an echoing chamber at once.


—Laura Kasischke, award-winning and truly awesome poet and author of the novels The Life Before Her Eyes (now a major motion picture, directed by Vadim Perelman and starring Uma Thurman and Evan Rachel Wood), Be Mine, and Suspicious River. And others.