The First Girl in Hell: A Novel

In Henry Hoke's fiercely original follow-up to his cult smash Open Throat, a blacklisted actress exiled to the Nevada desert plots revenge on those who wronged her and hatches a plan to rescue the woman she loves as old Hollywood is consumed by moral panic.

Good girls want to marry the boy next door. Bad girls want to be the first girl in hell.

Lucinda is in a pinch, one unbefitting a woman of her stature. She's made it to hell, but not the way she wanted. Instead of her previously gilded lif...