Nothing Special
This coming-of-age novel about a high school drop-out who is hired as a typist for Andy Warhol at the Factory is completely original, totally hilarious and absolutely engrossing. A wild ride from start to finish, this story of art, friendship and finding one's identity is for readers of Cleopatra and Frankenstein and Luster.
New York City, 1966. Seventeen-year-old Mae lives in a rundown apartment with her alcoholic mother and her mother's sometimes-boyfriend, Mikey. She is turned off by the petty girls at her high school, and the sleazy men she typically meets. When she drops out, she is presented with a job offer that will remake her w...


