The Worst Kind of Girl

There's a good reason Susan Rukeyser's writing has been described as "Sharp as a cholla and joyful as a roller disco" (Gayle Brandeis). With a compulsive energy, The Worst Kind of Girl reveals the never-end-ing desire to truly know oneself, no matter how surprising and ever-changing that knowledge might be.

When her husband disappears and is presumed dead, 50-year-old Paula Winger leaves her comfortable East Coast life to buy the rundown Hi-Dez Motel, near Joshua Tree, California. Hoping fo...