Sarah: A Novel
About this audiobook
A reissue of the national bestselling novel by JT LeRoy/Laura Albert
Sarah never admits that she is his mother, but the beautiful boy has watched her survive as a “lot lizard,” a prostitute working the West Virginia truck stops. Desperate to win her love, he decides to surpass her as the best and most famous lot lizard ever. With his own leather miniskirt and a makeup bag that closes with Velcro, the young “Cherry Vanilla” embarks on a journey through the Appalachian wilds, dining on transcendental cuisine, supplicating to the mystical Jackalope, encountering the most terrifying of pimps, walking on water, being venerated as an innocent girl saint—and then being denounced as the devil.
By turns exhilarating and shocking, magical and realistic, Sarah brings urgency, wit, and imagination to an unknown and unforgettable world.
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About the author
JT LeRoy is a literary persona created by Laura Albert. She is the author of Sarah, The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things, and Harold’s End. LauraAlbert.org.
Billy Corgan is the singer and songwriter for the critically acclaimed, multiplatinum Chicago band Smashing Pumpkins.
Jayme Mattler is a professional voiceover artist with years of experience in recording, directing, and producing. Passionate about narrating audiobooks, she has been the recipient of multiple Audie Award nominations.
Leigh Ledare is an internationally acclaimed artist and filmmaker. Using photography, the archive, language, and film, Ledare explores notions of subjectivity in a performative dimension. Recent exhibitions of Ledare’s work include: The Task, the Art Institute of Chicago (2017); the 2017 Whitney Biennial; and Manifesta 11, Zurich (2016). Ledare’s work has been the subject of major surveys at Charlottenborg Kunsthal, Copenhagen (2013) and WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels (2012), and is in the public collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Centre Pompidou, Paris; and Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland.
