Girl Walking Backwards

Brief Description: Bett Williams tells the coming-of-age story of Skye, a young woman with conflict from a new-age mother who wishes to hamper her emerging sexuality. It's not until she receives aid from Mol and Lorrie that she learns to feel authentic emotions in a culture of poseurs and new-age charlatans. Biographical Note: Bett Williams was raised in California. She resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico. This is her first novel. Review Quotes: "Bett Williams makes you laugh and then makes you feel guilty for laughing. Girl Walking Backwards is brilliant Southern gothic merged with punk rock and moved West. An honest, tender, and nasty rendering of self-mutilation and New Age fascism, this book establishes Williams as one of the most original novelists around." --Barry Graham, author of "The Book of Man and Before" "Girl Walking Backwards is about style and vulnerability and trying to grow up in a world without adults. Author Bett Williams is smart, charming, writes about characters engagingly, and knows how to drive a sentence." --Blanche McCrary Boyd, author of "Terminal Velocity, The Revolution of Little Girls," and "The Redneck Way of Knowledge" "Authentic in both pain and humor, Girl Walking Backwards is the tale of a girl lost, whose plight is as touchable as it is believable." --Steven Levenkron, author of "The Best Little Girl in the World, The Luckiest Girl in the World "and "Cutting: Understanding and Overcoming Self Mutilation" Review Citations:

Kirkus Reviews 08/15/1998 pg. 1151 (EAN 9780312194567, Paperback)

Library Journal 09/01/1998 pg. 218 (EAN 9780312194567, Paperback)

Publishers Weekly 09/07/1998 pg. 86 (EAN 9780312194567, Paperback)

Booklist 09/01/1998 pg. 69 (EAN 9780312194567, Paperback)

Contributor Bio:  Williams, Bett Bett Williams was raised in California. She resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Girl Walking Backwards is her first novel.