Beautiful Garbage: A Novel

By: Jill Di Donato

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Synopsis: If Holly Golightly lived in the &’80s, how far would she go to make a name for herself as Manhattan&’s artist du jour? We know all about Warhol, Basquiat, Keith Haring, and their fictional counterparts, but what about the edgy women artists of this time? Jodi Plum: smart, talented, ambitious, troubled. Fresh out of her teens, she leaves suburbia for Manhattan&’s glam and gritty art scene, and almost immediately falls into the clutches of Monika, a beautiful photographer. With the help of her new mentor, Jodi quickly becomes a rising star—but when a skeleton from her past surfaces, her dream life crashes to a halt, and she slips into a world of parties, drugs, and high-class prostitution. Set in the crime-plagued New York City of the 1980s, Beautiful Garbage parallels an artist&’s journey with her sexual epiphanies, exploring the notorious milieu of the decade&’s downtown art scene from the point of view of a young female artist—and offering a satirical and irreverent look at post-&’70s sexual politics and the world of elite call girls.

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